Word: dreisers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While he was bored by free verse and cubism, he thought rather well of Dreiser, Cabell, and so much of Proust as he had rather laboriously mastered. He played golf reasonably well, and did not often talk about his scores. He liked fishing in Ontario, but never made himself believe that he preferred hemlock bows to a mattress. He was common sense apotheosized...
...minor significance. The Boston dweller who must have his "Oil" will simply no longer be obliged to travel to Cambridge to get it. The languishing Boston bookshops will again take on their line of pristine Republican prosperity. And, for the Book of the Month Club, Lewis, Deeping, Sinclair and Dreiser may now be enrolled once more on the national eligibility list...
Asked last week whether he would endorse the Film Arts Guild (Manhattan organization for encouraging artistic films). Theodore Dreiser, novelist, said: ''The influence of the movies on the American public has been greater than any other force. . . . My sympathies and my appreciation will always be ... opposed to the American cinema magnates on the ground that they are more or less concentrated on the bastardization of the cinema not only with wearisome nonsense in regard to sex and romance but now with the talking pictures, the aim of which latter apparently is to exhume old stage plays which...
This was not the first time that Mr. Dreiser had been accused of plagiarism. George Ade shamed him in 1926; Columnist Franklin P. Adams of the New York World found remarkably similar passages in Mr. Dreiser's works and in Sherwood Anderson's earlier Winesburg, Ohio...
...example. Mrs. Lewis: "Here, too, one sees the ballerinas from the opera, often very pretty creatures ... in sleazy silk dresses which could be bought in America for $9 at a department store sale." Mr. Dreiser: "Also ballerinas from the Grand Opera House, exquisite creatures in sleazy silk dresses which could be bought in Fourteenth Street, New York...