Word: cried
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...says one, "je n'aime pas le cri de ces animaux." Better than Indians, says the other. By the way, says the first, you haven't seen any snakes tonight, have you? No, not tonight-"Ce sont de sales bétes, ces serpents a sonnettes. . . " At the end of the Revolution, Lafayette cries: "C'est la victoire . . . l'alliance entre les Etats Unis et la France a triomphe!" Last program is a grand roundup of U. S. noises, including the roar of "les chutes du Niagara" birds twittering, a bear's grunt. Coney Island...
Although the new movement in literature and painting known as "Surrealisme" began in Paris some time before 1924, it still remains the "dernier cri", receiving fresh impetus each year, new recruits, new exponents. In this age when new art movements have rapid births but even quicker deaths this fact alone, the persistence of Surrealisme not for a year but for almost ten, should warrant sufficient consideration. But we must not leap too hastily to any conclusion, either for or against. Some of us who mocked the first exhibitions of Cubism in America, notably the Amory Show, have learnt...
...Soon the name spread beyond our editorial room and Dollfuss inserted a brief item in the Cri de Paris. It was soon adopted universally. It was a fit name. It indicated the delight M. Clémenceau took in getting his claws into an enemy and holding on while the other writhed in pain...