Word: spits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first time this word, which aroused a legitimate enthusiasm in all of us." (Later Dadaist Richard Huelsenbeck claimed: ". . . it was I who pronounced the word dada [hobbyhorse] for the first time.") In moments of harmony and logic which they affected to despise, dadaists admitted that their object was "to spit in the eye of the world...
Surrealism. An art movement without hope or object cannot last long. Dadaist Max Ernst in his desire to spit in the eye of the world was experimenting about this time with what he 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...
...Vagabond reads Hobbes and thinks of Spain, the embattled loyalists running for cover, food gone, hearts gone, courage gone, the Cause gone. Snarling Whites plunging down the craggy Spanish hills, naked to their waists, indomitable, their powder dry-and plenty of it. Liberty! We Spit On Thee....A dictator, blood and thunder, kill the damn Reds, Vive L'Espagna....An ideology crumbles before gunfire...
...Benjamin Franklin staged an epochal picnic by the Schuylkill River. On the opposite bank were arrayed Leyden jars. Using the river for a conductor. Franklin electrically fired a pan of brandy. To his guests' amazement, a turkey was then electrocuted, cooked on an electrically turned spit over an electrically-lighted fire. After further experiments Franklin declared that electrocuted fowl "eats uncommonly tender...
...days ago the palace sentries broke up a game between H. R. H. Prince Tomislav inside the royal iron fence and Belgrade street urchins outside. Object of the game was to see who could spit farthest. According to a Belgrade dispatch last week some Orthodox priests have asked pious Serbs when praying for good King Peter to add "and may God be kind to his naughty brother...