Word: paints
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week Dorothy & Dick celebrated its first anniversary. Dorothy had started it mostly for fun, but in one year it had become one of radio's most popular (800 letters a week) and lucrative husband-&-wife acts.* From their 20 sponsors (Bien Jolie Foundations and Bras, Taystee Bread, Sapolin Paint, etc.) Dorothy and Dick milk $1,000 a week. Said Dorothy, who reasons that she might as well get paid for talking at breakfast: "It's still...
...sets in the new revue were possibly even more spectacular than the costumes. For the set of a Venetian palace used for three minutes, the paint alone cost 350,000 francs...
...decade before World War I, a few wild young men with paint under their fingernails were planting the weird orchards of modern art. Their shabby Latin Quarter ateliers held the first green fruits of freedom. The sidewalk cafés of Paris rocked and rang with their back-slapping and boasting. Les Fauves, "the wild beasts" and their far-from-tame friends had taken over-Matisse, Braque, Derain, Duchamp, Rouault, and Picasso in command...
They felt a compulsion to go on from where the post-impressionists (Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cézanne) left off, and an itch to show that you can forget nature (almost) and still paint pictures...
Parisian Poet Blaise Cendrars was trying to describe Artist Marc Chagall. Hardly anyone else in 1911 thought him worth describing. Paris was just getting used to Les Fauves (see above), and bright young men from all over Europe and the U.S. were there, learning to paint in the new ways. But Chagall did not want to learn anything...