Word: dreiser
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Women's clubs are boloney," growled Author Theodore Dreiser to 300 gasping members of the Los Angeles Junior League. Ordinarily charging $500 a lecture, grumpy Author Dreiser, who is still writing novels, was paid not a penny for these thoughts. Other Dreiser throwaways: "You could close every university in the U. S. and it wouldn't make any difference. You can get a degree today on the most asinine subjects you ever heard of. Most of the youngsters are sneaking and cheating their way through school...
...years ago, shocked into action by the silicosis scandal of Gauley Bridge, W. Va.* (TIME, Feb. 3, 1936), the National Committee for People's Rights (founded by Theodore Dreiser in 1931, supported by contributions from such literati as Louis Adamic, Hamilton Basso, John Chamberlain, Waldo Frank) sent a committee to Tri-State to study the health of the miners. Among the committee members: Economist James Raymond Walsh of Hobart College, Sociologist Esther Lucile Brown of the Russell Sage Foundation, Dr. Adelaide Helen Ross Smith, Manhattan silicosis expert, Socialite Sheldon Dick, Manhattan photographer...
...business as a rooming house was the late Mme Katherine Branchard's "house of genius" in Manhattan's Greenwich Village. Comfortable under its roof had been scores of stray cats, many a famed writer, including Theodore Dreiser, Eugene O'Neill, O. Henry, Willa Gather, John Reed, Frank Morris, Stephen Crane...
...Louis' most famed murder cases. He has covered 15 hangings, innumerable murders, never a lynching. Once he heard there were going to be two lynchings in one night, picked the wrong one, never got another chance. Paul Y. Anderson, Marcus Wolf, Herbert Bayard Swope and Theodore Dreiser were all St. Louis cubs when Jock Bellairs was a veteran. In A Book About Myself, Dreiser puzzled over Bellairs' "curious compound of indifference, wisdom, literary and political sense," the whiskey bottle he kept in his pocket "to save time...
...professional colleagues. Her book on Hitler was best known for its flat statement that he would never come to power ("Oh, Adolf! Adolf! You will be out of luck"), and her book on Russia was best known as the inspiration for Sinclair Lewis's renowned brawl with Theodore Dreiser, whom he accused of plagiarizing it. She had written a few articles for The Saturday Evening Post and was considered an intelligent journalist, but she was a reporter and no pundit. Then, in March 1936, Mrs. Ogden Reid, super-clubwoman vice president of the New York Herald Tribune, hired...