Word: dos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...drawings and a hand-colored lithograph were presented to a very select public by svelte Publisher Caresse Crosby's Black Sun Press in an edition of 280 numbered copies, printed on hand-moulded paper, bound in a loose box, introduced by a little essay by myopic Novelist John Dos Passos, and priced at $50. Among the best drawings...
...01NTERREGNUM-George Grosz, Introduction by John Dos Passos-Black Sun Press...
...clutch and discharged through the differential. Beneath American-made bodies that are tastefully refashioned every year, power transmission has gained a standard performance. New bodies come and old bodies go but clutch and differential now change but little." Written in a technique that owes something to John Dos Passes, something to James Joyce, Clutch and Differential is made up of 35 long episodes dealing with characters who bear little apparent relation to each other. Stripped of its complicated gadgets, it could be mistaken for a collection of oldfashioned, highwheeled short stories. But 18 of George Weller's episodes...
...activity was the publication of a pamphlet called Walled in This Tomb. A 29-page indictment of the action of A. Lawrence Lowell's committee in upholding the conviction of Sacco & Vanzetti in 1927, the pamphlet was signed by such Harvard Reds as Powers Hapgood, Heywood Broun, John Dos Passes, Stuart Chase, who wanted to know "what happened to the mental processes of ... Alma Mater's President...
...confident that I express the opinion of thousands of alert readers and writers who have long been aware of John Dos Passes' excellent work when I send along my congratulations for TIME'S topflight review of The Big Money in the Aug. 10 issue. An able, critical estimate of which TIME'S Books editor may well be proud. AUGUST W. DERLETH...