Word: pollyannaism
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...divergence between these two descriptions of business was more than half political. Under Secretary Hanes spoke for the Pollyanna wing of the Administration, which is not at all anxious to throw any stumbling blocks in the way of recovery that the Government does not have to pay for. Secretary Hopkins and ghostwriters spoke for the New Deal wing, which has no real faith that Business ever will produce prosperity and wants to be on record against the day when the boom collapses and more appropriations will be asked from Congress...
Recalling that he had last spoken in the Church during last autumn's European crisis the President found as little room for complacent Pollyanna optimism today as there was last September...
Early Riser Carter is an old hand at cockcrow broadcasting, has been doing Early Risers Clubs since 1932 for WIP (Philadelphia), WMCA (Manhattan). He was once as offensively cheery as his glad-voiced fellows. He invented Jim Grouch for use as a horrible example on such Pollyanna programs, decided only last month, after a night of insomnia, that Jim Grouch had the right...
...Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, Elsie Dinsmore, Uncle Remus, Penrod, Five Little Peppers and How They Grew, Peck's Bad Boy and His Pa, The Story of a Bad Boy, Little Lord Fontleroy, Goops and How to Be Them, The Last of the Mohicans, Freckles, Tarzan of the Apes, Pollyanna, Beautiful...
Best-sellers of them all have been Freckles, which since publication in 1904 has sold over 2,000,000 copies, and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), with total all-time sales of 1,500,000 copies. At least five others have sold over a million: Pollyanna, Five Little Peppers and How They Grew, Beautiful Joe, The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come, Huckleberry Finn...