Word: dreiser
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first Austrian to be sentenced to death since Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss revived the death penalty to cow Nazis was a non-Nazi farm boy named Hans Breitweiser. Like the hero of Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy, he had resolved to marry a well-dowried girl, after he had seduced a poor one. His solution was to murder the poor girl last week, so bunglingly that she lived long enough to accuse...
...Theodore Dreiser is a bluff, sort of a spade-a-spade fellow. He was dining out at one of the Harvard houses the other evening where it happened that the head tutor was a former Rhodes scholar, and of course you know what that means. In case you don't, it means that he affects a small, rather amusing moustache. The head tutor was about to break bread with Dreiser as a fellow literary man; warming up to him, a little, if a head tutor could he so described, Said Mr. Dreiser, firmly and loudly: "Say, that's quite...
...Theodore Dreiser, noted author and journalist, will speak before the Liberal Club at 7.15 o'clock Wednesday evening in the upper common room of Adams House. The subject of Dreiser's speech will be "Liberalism...
...Dreiser was formerly editor of Delineator, New Idea, and other magazines. Among his novels are "Jennie Gerhardt," "A Traveller at Forty," and "An American Tragedy." In the last few years Dreiser has affiliated himself with several liberal movements, and is therefore well qualified to tall on "Liberalism...
...Dreiser will be the guest of honor at a dinner given at Adams House before the meeting. Among other guests at the dinner will be Robert S. Hillyer '17, associate professor of English. In accordance with Dreiser's request the meeting will be closed to the public, but members of the Liberal Club may bring guests...