Word: dada
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Birth of Dada...
...issue of TIME for Aug. 5, it is stated in the review of The Eater of Darkness that Dadaism was "born at the Cabaret Voltaire, Paris, 1916." This would give rise to the erroneous impression that Dada was a movement of French origin...
...Dada Movement was founded in the Cafe Voltaire in Zurich, Switzerland in 1916 by a group of five literati; two Germans, two Rumanians and an Alsatian. The word, Dada (which is apparently a child's name for a hobby horse) was first applied by this group to one of the female singers in derision, and afterwards to a movement that derided the contemporary arts. Later the centre of the movement was shifted by Tristan Tzara, one of the founders, to Paris where it became united with a French movement of a somewhat similar nature...
...Manhattan manner" at $4.40 each (advt.), and an Oriental dancer named Sweet Adeline. At the end Charles is seen walking down Fifth Avenue smoking a cigar (brand not noted: Author Coates advertises everything but cigars}. Significance: Ford Madox Ford calls this "not the first but the best Dada novel." Dadaism is extinct. Fathered by Painter Francis Picabia, mothered by Poet Tristan Tzara, Dadaism was born at the Cabaret Voltaire, Paris, 1916, when Poet Tzara, 20, thus christened it (in verse) : "Dada is not a literary school. . . . Anonymous Society for the Exploitation of Ideas, Dada has 391 different attitudes...
...well, as simply. It will annoy them to find that it is possible to be modern as well as coherent. Perhaps, before long, we shall have a school of "Neo Hemingways", a bunch of these sleek fellows who have been the followers of every latest-ism since Dada was young. They will imitate him with diccrete modifications, without his balance and restraint, and probably they will be welcomed, for this, you remember, is America where we can never get too much of a good thing