Word: movement
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
Welcome indeed would she be in Rome, where she could help any man do his diplomatic duty. Baltimore and Washington, Berlin and Buenos Aires, Paris and The Hague knew her well-a woman of striking appearance, rich, gracious, restless, energetic, vitalizer of many a new "movement." She, more than any other, was responsible for the U. S. vogue of Leon Bakst (1866-1925), brilliant Russian artist and stage designer. She brought him to her Baltimore home, there set him to work designing a private theatre, decorating it in the modern Russian style. Bakst decorations spread to include other features...
...Before I took office in 1921 I had never been actively connected with the Prohibition movement. I am now, but was not then, a teetotaler. I had liquor in my own home in California and used it, in moderation, of course...
...Duke of Connaught, who was, Scouts had been told, uncle to King George V. English Scouts soon forgot their recent jibes of "millionaires" when Mortimer L. Schiff (Kuhn Loeb & Co.), U. S. Scout vice president, presented a $50,000 check to them, "for the advancement of the British Scout movement...
Whether the sale was a movement toward including Procter & Gamble in Standard Brands, new Morgan food-products holding company (TIME, July 1 ), was debatable because of the small percentage of Morgan ownership. Yet soap, like yeast, is undeniably distributed in cakes...