Word: dos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...selections of The Spanish Earth, a film of the civil war, taken on, the Loyalist side of the front lines, the work of a gifted young Dutch cameraman, Joris Ivens, who with Hemingway spent several weeks on the battlefields and whose picture is being prepared for distribution by John Dos Passos and Archibald MacLeish...
...time the Congress adjourned the delegates had listened to some 24 hours of speechmaking, essay-reading and discussion in its various departments, had chosen John Dos Passos' The Big Money, Joseph Freeman's An American Testament, Carl Sandburg's The People, Yes, John Howard Lawson's Marching Song and Van Wyck Brooks' The Flowering of New England as the most valuable works of the past year. To Gone With The Wind (1,350,000 copies printed) they gave one vote...
Charles W. Huntley, Schenectady, New York, assistant in Psychology; Donald V. McGranahan '35, Malden, assistant in Psychology; Fillmore H. Sanford, Luray, Virginia, assistant in Psychology; Wondell H. Bash, Dos Moines, Iowa, Drake '35, assistant and tutor in Sociology...
Since Walt Whitman's Song of the Open Road many a U. S. writer has attempted a modern sequel to that ringing inventory of the U. S. scene. Bravest of these attempts have come from such contemporary novelists as John Dos Passos, Sherwood Anderson, Thomas Wolfe. To the lesser footnotes Novelist Nathan Asch (The Office, Pay Day) this week added his own modestly tentative, well-written account of what the U. S. means after a four-month bus trip...
...Like Dos Passos, Author Asch believes the way to go about anatomizing the U. S. is to examine the private histories of the people who are not news. "What I wanted to see was what was so typical that to the natives it was almost banal." He took a bus because it was cheapest, because train travel is stilted and because in an automobile "the only ones you get to talk to are filling station men and traffic cops." In a bus the atmosphere is unaffected, intimate. "Under the murderous vibration . . . you've got to relax . . . everybody sings...