Word: pollyanna
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nine years ago, when Pollyanna and its sequel Pollyanna Grows Up had newly burst upon the view, one reviewer, more prophetically than he knew, remarked : "Pollyanna retires from her second book at the age of 20 and she is 'glad, glad, glad for - everything,' for she and Jimmy love each other. . . . Two other incidental romances and some mysteries still remain unsolved ; so [he added apprehensively] it may be necessary for more 'glad' books to follow...
...manipulated that lone porker, that he had at length attained unto dizzying financial plenitude and a mansion on Chicago's Gold Coast. He had, moreover, a passion for cleanliness. In public life, he stood for: "Clean Water Supply (Prohibition!), Clean Education (Paul Revere's Ride!), Clean Literature (Pollyanna!), Clean Minds (belief in the stork...
...many temptations around him, succumbing to each in turn, only to be resuced at the last moment by Dame Fortune wearing even more stalwart youth's trousers. His ideals vanish. His "false Gods" topple over. He comes to the conclusion that college has been a failure. A Pollyanna is needed and Professor Henley rises to the occasion. In a long and immature discourse he attempts to justify college, cynically declaring that although its graduates are pretty poor specimens of humanity, they are the best there are, and as such he has faith in them...
...Pollyanna Is Brought Up-to-Date...
...Moment She is Pollyanna, the Glad Girl; Another, Grandma Bett