Word: charivari
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...Masses and The New Yorker together, shake hard, Gallicize, move back a century to the time when to be Left in France was to be Republican, and you have something like La Caricature and its daily successor Le Charivari, the periodicals by which Honore Daumier earned 30 years' living, six months in jail, and undying fame as an artist. Beginning in the second decade after the Napoleonic Wars, hardworking lithographers including Traviès, Gavarni and Grandville filled these sheets with caricatures of Bonapartist reactionaries and canting bourgeois. Daumier, who worked hardest & longest, died blind and penniless...
...yellows, vermilions, emerald-greens. The friends of the café Guerbois had no name for them selves until April 15, 1874 when the Photographer Nadar lent them his gallery for a large exhibition. Among the pictures was one by Claude Monet entitled Impression, Sunrise. One Louis Leroy, critic of Charivari, blasted the show and picked on this one picture as typical of what he considered the faults of the entire school. He titled his review "Exposition des Impressionnistes." The name stuck...
...Negro can legally marry a white woman in any Southern State. But Wisconsin does not mind, nor California. Last week at Carmel, Calif., "Provincetown of the Pacific Coast," there was an intellectual charivari. A parade of Carmel artists and authors marched to the cottage of Jean Toomer, 36, Negro philosopher (Cane), psychologist and lecturer, and Novelist Margery Bodine Latimer (This Is My Body), 33. It had just been revealed that they were married four months ago at Portage, Wis. Bridegroom Toomer, who has a small mustache and few Negroid characteristics, told the story of their romance...
TIME, Aug. 17th, was misinformed with others as to the contents & amount of the silver bowl left by charivarists in the Marengo, Wis. charivari. Witness letter written by victims, appearing in the Ironwood Daily Globe, as enclosed. Their liberality was over-estimated by reporters...
...thirteenth day Juoni wrote a letter to Governor Philip Fox La Follette, begging him to do something. ''It is the neighbors," he complained. "We have appealed to the sheriff but the charivari is still going on. ... The sheriff let them all go as soon as he had arrested them...