Word: dos
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Washington M. Tsamádos, Greek Chargé des Affaires,* was received by U. S. Secretary of State Charles E. Hughes...
...Handel Come and Trip it Handel The Plague of Love Dr. Arne So Sweete is Shee, Old English, arr. by William Fisher The Praise of Islay, Old Scotch, arr. by Fritz Kreisler Der Wanderer Schubert Seven Ditchterliebe Schumann Die Mainachi Brahms La Caravan Chausson Claire de Lune Faure Villanelle dos petits canards Chabrier Wiegenlied Moussorgsky Hopak Moussorgsky Poem of Musse Rachmaninoff The Steppe Gretchaninoff...
STREETS OF NIGHT-John Dos Passos - Doran ($2.00). Three friends instead of three soldiers- Nancibel the violinist, Fanshawe the overcultivated instructor who would rather have books than life, Wenny the graduate-student, simplest of the three, youth unable to bear disillusionment-three people afraid to live - Laodiceans all. Wenny loved Nancibel, but he didn't have the courage of his conviction; Nancibel loved Wenny, but she didn't dare believe it. So the hour went by and Wenny shot himself and was luckier than the other two who went on living in Limbo-Nancibel, at the last...
...Dos Passos is of Portuguese descent through his father, who was a prominent New York corporation lawyer. Like William MeFee, he was born on the ocean. Some of his early youth was spent in England, where he went to school for a time. He attended Harvard but was not graduated. His War record is somewhat complicated. He enlisted in the Morgan-Harjes ambulance unit. His section was in the big attack around Verdun and Mort Homme in 1917. After the ambulance section broke up, he attempted to enlist in the Army but was rejected because of defective eyesight. He went...
...essential things about Dos Passos are his zest for color and his craving for motion. He paints in all his spare time. His books are filled with passages of glowing description. He feels everything, it seems, in terms of color?a sensualist, yes? Latin in spirit...