Word: greenness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harrisburg, Pennsylvania's Electoral College (president, Mathew H. McCloskey Jr., Philadelphia contractor) heard Governor George H. Earle declare that all this electoral nonsense was out of date, just like state's Rights. For Roosevelt & Garner, 36 gilt-edged cards in a green glass...
...contrast to the battle scone, a quiet note is expressed at the right by the sleeper awakening. He represents the regenerated race of man. "The World's New Age hath dawned. . . . Earth rises a second time, from the deep sea; it rises clad with green verdure...
...calls his collages: fantastic pictures made by cutting apart old engravings and rearranging them to make bustled ladies with lions' heads, assassins with angels' wings, strange trees growing from horses' backs, etc. Examining these and other dadaist creations, Poet Andre Breton, who frequently dresses entirely in green, smokes a green pipe, drinks a green liqueur and has a sound knowledge of Freudian psychology, discovered behind all this a newer and better ism. In the autumn of 1924 he wrote his Manifesto of Surrealism, and a word and a school were born.* Excerpt: "Surrealism rests in the belief...
Artist Dali who wears a knitted Catalan liberty cap whenever possible, takes surrealism in dead earnest, but has a faculty for publicity which should turn any circus pressagent green with envy. On his first arrival in the U. S. he solemnly explained: "I used to balance two broiled chops on my wife's shoulders, and then by observing the movement of tiny shadows produced by the accident of the meat on the flesh of the woman I love while the sun was setting, I was finally able to attain images sufficiently lucid and appetizing for exhibition in New York...
...pages of newspapers and aviation magazines. Dozens of expert committees have made reports agreeing with him. But until Germany's Hindenburg made its spectacularly successful flights last summer, Commander Rosendahl's pleadings bounced off the U. S. public like a topped golf ball off a frozen green...