Word: dos
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...seldom lets his religio-poetic predilections run away with him, gives good professional literary criticism by & large. The U. S. literary scene, when he is through with it, looks just about the same, though the literati look more real. For modern writers like Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, John Dos Passes he has not much to say; prefers Hemingway, Frost, Edna Millay. The book is a reliable and compendious guidebook, though its readers will sometimes suffer from a discomforting suspicion that its author's opinions will never wither from lack...
...belongs to a group of zealous metropolitan literati who organized themselves into the National Committee to Aid Striking Miners Fighting Starvation. Last autumn another group, the National Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners, made a sortie into bloody Harlan County, adjacent to Bell, to "investigate conditions." Author John Dos Passes, chairman of the N. C. A. S. M. F. S., went along and so did Theodore Dreiser. In Pineville rural constables swore they caught Author Dreiser in some sexual mis- behavior and if he ever revisits the neighborhood it will be at the risk of reopening a statutory charge...
Leader of the group was Waldo Frank. Notably absent from the entourage was Author Dos Passes, who was off in Mexico. Corliss Lamont, philosophy professor at Columbia University and son of Banker Thomas William Lamont, said he had expected to go along but was too busy. However, Mr. Frank's party mustered Edmund ("Bunny") Wilson, literary critic; Editor Malcolm Cowley of the New Republic; drowsey-eyed Mary Heaton Vorse who reports labor troubles better than she writes novels; Playwright Harold Hickerson; Charles Walker, admired for a book called Steel; a 60-year-old Greenwich Village doctor named Elsie Reed Mitchell...
...they said, the toothpicks were still in place. Investigator Dreiser, 60, and his friend were indicted for adultery. Mr. Dreiser left Kentucky, protested his innocence, backed it with this public announcement: "I am completely and finally impotent." Last week he was also indicted in Kentucky, along with Author John Dos Passes, for criminal syndicalism because of his outspoken sympathy for the miners' cause...
...nearby village of Dos Hermanos (Two Brothers) rioters set fire to the telephone office, then attempted to burn the screaming, hysterical telephone girls alive by sniping at doors and windows. Perspiring Civil Guards dashed to the rescue. Seville's Governor Bastos forthwith dismissed the Mayor of Two Brothers as a pacifist...