Word: toured
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...American Tragedy"--what a book what a needlessly long tour-de-force. And we don't mean maybe! Mr. Dreiser, laborious hind of realism, was disgusted by the sickly romantic breed of best sellers. "Mein Gott!" he belched. (This was way back before Prohibition.) "I shall write a book--oh, such a book." He has. It gripes the romanticists, it wearies the amoral. Mr. Dreiser has forgotten nothing; he has taken a "weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable" hero (the big gun, Willie Shakspere spouted all those adjectives) and put him through hours and hours of representative paces...
...Tour Nine, June 29 to September 14; the Danube Tour...
...Tour Ten A, June 29 to September 14; with the Silesian Freischaar...
...Tour Ten B, June 29 to September 14; with the Saxon Freischaar...
...Tour Ten C, June 29 to September 14; with the Westphalian Freischaar...