Word: ones
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...case histories of 15 women whom Author Theodore Dreiser has known, pondered over and laboriously written about. Conscientious and truthful according to his lights, Author Dreiser tries to give a complete report; in the oblique way in which such attempts often work out, he succeeds in showing himself as one of the most sympathetic of inquiring reporters...
...Matter. Reina was a Hollywood cocotte, "a parasite by nature." She got a good man, but couldn't keep him. Olive, a Baptist from Salt Lake City, had an itch for men of culture. She died in Manhattan, after marrying one of many. Ellen wanted to be an artist. She found her opposite number in Paris, but he left her; then, she tried to make second bests do. Lucia was born on the Riviera, but she went to Paris to learn about love. When she was tired of being an old man's darling, she tried a young...
...kept her faith. "A girl of the Diana type," Albertine was Jersey City bred, but attained Park Avenue because her husband was a clever window dresser. Albertine took lovers, but was circumspect. Regina had a good job as superintendent of a Washington hospital: she got the morphine habit. No one knew how or where she died. Rella was a farmer's daughter, and just the right age. When her literary uncle-by-marriage came along, she fell in love with him, but his wife got him away in time. A Manhattan actress, Ernestine took life a little too fast...
Most newspaper stories are written in better English. Yet in spite of his formless, floundering style, Author Dreiser has won recognition as one of the most important U. S. writers. He is so much in earnest such a painstaking student of his fellows, that his stories, weak at almost any given point, have a cumulative strength...
...thumbnail biographies: impressionistic studies of men and women of genius. Some are boudoir, some bedside scenes. Heloise and Abelard, separated for life, long for each other and finally share a grave; Byron, fair, fattish and 40, dies of fever at Missolonghi; Goethe walks through the night to one of his many assignations; Oscar Wilde, under his enforced pseudonym of Sebastian Melmoth, dies a pariah at the Hotel d'Alsace in Paris; George Sand and Alfred de Musset kiss and wrangle; Tolstoy, in his last illness, flees his troublesome wife and dies on a hard bench in the railway station...