Word: dos
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Next week some pieces to Griffes, a Brahms symphony, Saint-Saens "Carnaval dos Animaux", including "Persons with long ears" (1) and "Pianists", and Glazounov's "Stenka Razin" make up the program...
...house his poison is shipped to the Harvard laboratory, and thence to Brazil, where the Brazilian government runs a large serum plant. Long years of study have developed a method of procuring serum by injecting minute quantities of the poison of a given species into a horse. Gradually, the dos s are increased, until its blood begins to manufacture an antidote to this special poison and eventually becomes immune to it. From the blood of the horse the antidote is extracted, and this in turn is preserved and sent to hospitals so that it may be used to cure persons...
...first tilt came last Monday. Senator Watson, who recently tried to outstrip Dos Passos in denouncing army discipline, now turned his attention to Henry Ford--conferring upon the latter the title of "blackmailer" and a few other none too choice epithets. Senator Williams came to the rescue and charged the Senator from Georgia with inciting men "to rebel against the authority of the United States government" in war time. And then the song was out--until Senator Robinson succeeded in having the belligerents removed from the floor...
...Dos Passos' "Three Soldiers" has called forth storms of comment. It has disgusted hundreds by its gruesome pictures of army life; it has monopolized first pages of Literary supplements and has furnished enough Letters to the Editor to keep the newspapers running for weeks. But now it is no longer alone in the field. Dos Passos has a rival: he is Senator Watson...
These are serious charges. They are the more serious coming, as they do, from a Senator, speaking in the Senate, rather than from a novelist, whose work may permissibly be a little over-colored. But so far, neither Senator Watson nor John Dos Passos has produced any definite proof. A novel, with fictitious names, means nothing; the same is true of a photograph without other facts, of vague and general telegrams and of "somebody-told-me" evidence. Most of us are from Missouri; give us the date, place, persons involved. Then we will sit up and take notice...