Word: loudest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dada is something newer, different, a bewilderment that affected the art world of Europe for a few shell-shocked years during and immediately after the War. The object of dadaism was a conscious attack on reason, a complete negation of everything, the loudest and silliest expression of post-War cynicism. "I affirm," wrote early Dadaist Hans Arp, "that Tristan Tzara discovered the word dada on the 8th of February, 1916, at 6 o'clock in the evening ... in the Terrace Cafe in Zurich. I was there with my twelve children when Tzara pronounced for the first time this word...
...still unopened Hotel Reforma, soon to be one of Mexico City's swankest, burst swart, baggy-breeched Diego de Rivera at the head of a group of 20 gesticulating young men. Before they could commit much of a nuisance, alarmed neighbors summoned police who questioned Rivera and his loudest companions, found that the group was fortified with not one but five revolvers...
...Differing from most mass art shows, the Whitney Biennial has no jury, offers no prizes, but the Whitney offers far more practical rewards by buying from its large endowment a great many more pictures from each Biennial than it ever expects to hang permanently on its walls. Critics rooted loudest last week for a portrait of a pert chorus blonde in a plumed shako by Walt Kuhn, who started his artistic career drawing comic pictures for the humorous weeklies, has become one of the ablest painters...
...reward Mary Lewis received five full minutes of bravos, five huge baskets of roses and chrysanthemums, five close-up flashlight shots, all accepted breathlessly and with apparent surprise. Loudest applause, no matter what she sang, came from Mary Hague's own guests, among them Husband Hague, Jimmy Durante, George M. Cohan and James J. Walker who, when he was New York's mayor, married Mary Lewis to Basso Bohnen...
...maintain a minister at the Vatican. Or, he intended to invite the collaboration of the U. S. Government in the Church's battle to the death against Communism. Again, he was going to do something about Mother Church's No. 1 demagog, Radiorator Charles Edward Coughlin. The- loudest Catholic voice in the land had continued to belabor the U. S. President in spite of the quietus which Vatican Voices supposedly had attempted to clap on him through his easy-going superior, Detroit's Bishop Gallagher, at Rome last summer (TIME...