Word: worde
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dada Movement was founded in the Cafe Voltaire in Zurich, Switzerland in 1916 by a group of five literati; two Germans, two Rumanians and an Alsatian. The word, Dada (which is apparently a child's name for a hobby horse) was first applied by this group to one of the female singers in derision, and afterwards to a movement that derided the contemporary arts. Later the centre of the movement was shifted by Tristan Tzara, one of the founders, to Paris where it became united with a French movement of a somewhat similar nature...
...simple truth is that over my own protest I was urged by the Republican National Committee in two telegrams to make that speech. The week before it was delivered every word of it was carefully edited by James Francis Burke, a Catholic, and counsel of the committee. He did this at committee headquarters...
...started blacking his face because he noticed that crowds always laughed at a black man. He worked with Dockstader's minstrels, then for the Shuberts. He was the first minstrel to get down on his knees when, in the chorus of a song, he came to the word "Mammy." Now a multimillionaire, third* richest actor in the world, he remains capricious, moody, fond of asserting his independence and of practical jokes. He likes to take long motor trips without planning them, starting at night for some distant point and singing on the way. His companions are usually less important...
...sensation at Bucharest, last week, brought rash Publicist Filipescu to a filthy cell in the common jail. Awaiting trial for lèse-majesté he stoutly said: "I will not withdraw one word!" His defense, he added, would be that his article is not ''an attack on the Royal Family," as the Crown Prosecutor charges, but instead is a patriotic rebuke to the Rumanian statesman who allowed Her Majesty to go abroad and gallivant...
Duchess of Flights. Intimates of Mary du Cauroy, 63, Duchess of Bedford, received her telegrams one morning last week: "Off for India. Expect to be back in a week." By the time recipients had their word from this "duchess of flights," she had packed eight small suitcases into her Fokker and with pilot and mechanic was on her 10,000-mile way from Folkestone, Eng., to Karachi, India. Last year she attempted the same trip in the same plane, but was forced down at Bushire on the Persian Gulf. Flying is the Duchess' avocation. Professionally she is an electro-physicist...