Word: dreisers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Killer Harry K. Thaw was his neighbor, 2) patrol wagons at the door and policemen riding in the apartment's elevators were annoying, especially when they came to arrest disorderly women. Mrs. Sinclair Lewis (née Dorothy Thompson) last week accused Theodore (American Tragedy') Dreiser of plagiarism. She had written an able book entitled The New Russia, based on her despatches to the New York Evening Post. She was at that time the best U. S. newspaper correspondent in central and eastern Europe. Mr. Dreiser, too, had travelled in Russia and he came out a little later...
...making her charge, Mrs. Lewis quoted, side by side, dozens and dozens of paragraphs and sentences from her book and Mr. Dreiser's, which were practically identical* But, said Mrs. Lewis: "I want to reiterate that Mr. Dreiser's book as a whole and mine as a whole have numerous important differences. We do not arrive at the same conclusions regarding the Soviet experiment. . . . What strikes me as peculiar in the whole affair is that the passages in question deal with precisely those things which I should have thought a novelist would wish to describe...
...public personages dare testify to disbelief in God. Sensation seekers crowd their ranks and an atheist fanatic is equalled in insane ferocity only by an inflamed revivalist. Yet leading atheists claim many famous figures as their allies. Such figures are: Sinclair Lewis, Clement Wood, Clarence Darrow, Freeman Hopwood, Theodore Dreiser, John Broadus Watson (behaviorism), E. Haldeman-Julius, A. G. Keller...
WANDERING about in the cul-desacs of esotericism, the young writers whose several courses are the consideration of "Destinations" present such divergence of purpose that they discover no very clearly marked thoroughfare for American letters. But under the ruling hierarchy of Dreiser, Mencken, Robinson, and Anderson, Mr. Munson finds an approaching aridity that fresh blood must eventually dispel. And so, in the present volume, with a respectful acknowledgement of the critical importance of Irving Babbitt and Paul Elmer More, and an estimation of Dreiser, Robinson, and Lindsay, he attempts, in a series of essays on Wallace Stevens, Marianne Moore, William...
...third report on Russia, set down emotionally rather than factually by famed Novelist Theodore Dreiser, is now appearing in news organs adherent to the North American Newspaper Alliance. Thus far the emotional genius of Novelist Dreiser has led him into such self-contradictions as are contained in the following statements: 1) "I believe that in the main the Russian people are satisfied with the Soviet mechanism, and that they think it is perfecting itself daily," but 2) "There is a dictatorship of the Communist Party. ... All over Russia you find a kind of terror of the Communists, and what they...