Word: rising
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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...
...Anglican Sir Giles, 49, is an ecclesiastical specialist who loves the mossy, shattered abbeys and cloisters of England. In days to come, as they sit in the quiet recesses of London's Athenaeum Club, they may chat about their cathedrals, exchanging theories and compliments. But as their respective shrines rise on the banks of the River Mersey, they cannot help but command the eyes of England as esthetic competitors...
...dollar corporations. Unique among U. S. Directors is George Fisher Baker Jr. who is on four billion dollar corporations: General Motors, General Electric, U. S. Steel, American Tel. & Tel. Last week while his Tel. & Tel. and General Electric were in the midst of a 23 and a 25 point rise, unique Director Baker did something which surprised his conservative stockholders, about half of whom are women. The board, including Thomas Cochran of J. P. Morgan, Francis Lee Higginson and the chairman, famed Owen D. Young, was scheduled to meet in Manhattan at 11 a. m. Promptly on the hour they...
...Andrew Jackson was U. S. President. All good people were worried about the rise of Mormonism. Manhattan Island had streets as far uptown as Fourteenth. New York elected its first mayor by popular vote. Frances Wright, "that bold blasphemer and voluptuous preacher of licentiousness" stirred audiences with her free talk, caused the defeat of a Tammany candidate for the legislature. Washington Square had just been changed from Potter's Field to a public park. Imprisonment for debt was abolished that year...
...these words: "I serve notice now on the Governor of New York [Alfred Emanuel Smith] and all who train with him that he can not roll into the White House on a beer keg and a wine barrel, for the militant manhood and the emancipated womanhood of America will rise in the majesty of their might and smash every jog and break every bottle and roll every beer keg and every champagne barrel into the Atlantic Ocean...