Word: pollyanna
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...these Solons, to be protected from itself, and kept from doing harm. The situation in a nutshell reveals an odious tale of legislative tinkering. Books are to be mailed and backed and literature to be made a handmaid of the State Legislature, People will be led with spoonvictuals of Pollyanna strain. Authorship will amount to a disgraceful truckling to the prudes of a loud-voiced minority. The public press is to be silenced by a threat...
...could only suffer in the hands of some other player. The part of the grouchy old father is played in the manner of the best crabs by Mr. Robert McWade. Miss Blyth Daly, as Geraldine Marsh, the orphaned friend of the family turned housekeeper, entirely satisfactory as the Pollyanna minority, and shows a distinct appreciation of the part. Mr. Albert G. Andrews, as the Ray, Philip Dow, makes an ass of the person in the most approved fashion...
...publishers were loath to lose such a goldmine. They cast about for a successor, and now they have blandly announced that they "felt that the lamented death of the creator of Pollyanna should not deprive the public of the eagerly awaited continuation of the story of Pollyanna and the glad game...
...ethics of the proceeding seem a little hazy. One wonders whether Pollyanna's creator would be unqualifiedly "glad" at this calm appropriation of her brainchild. It is true, however, that there have been and still are voracious readers of this drivel. Over half a million copies of Pollyanna were sold, it was translated into five languages, including Japanese, and a Finnish edition is now under way. A prodigious mushroom crop of "Glad dubs" sprang up in its wake, and innumerable families were afflicted with "glad" little girls who, when a bee stung them, were glad it wasn...
...POLLYANNA (Trade Mark) OF THE ORANGE BLOSSOMS, THE THIRD GLAD (Trade Mark) BOOK-Harriet Lununis Smith- Page, Boston...