Word: bucking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sever 11 Government 19b Ansell-Rush Sever 7 Shaw-Williams Sever 11 History B Fogg Lect. Rm. History 1 Dr. Schaeffer, 1, 11, 13 New Lect. Hall Mr. Achorn, 2, 15 Sever 36 Mr. Achorn, 23, 26 Sever 35 Mr. Barnhart, 3, 22, 28, 30 New Lect. Hall Mr. Buck, 6, 14, 17, 27 New Lect. Hall Mr. Cram, 5, 24, 29 Harvard 6 Mr. Lear, 9, 18, 20 Sem. Mus. 1 Mr. Lear, 31 Sem. Mus. 2 Mr. Russell, 7, 19, 21 Harvard 5 Mr. Russell, 32 Harvard 1 Mr. Salmon, 8, 10 Harvard 2 Mr. Salmon, 25 Harvard...
...Sever 11 German 21 Sever 11 Government 19b Sever 7. 11 History B Fogg Lect Rm. History 1 Dr. Schaeffer, 1, 11, 13 New Lect. Hall Mr. Achorn, 2, 15 Sever 36 Mr. Achorn, 23, 26 Sever 35 Mr. Barnhart, 3, 22, 28, 30 New Lect, Hall Mr. Buck, 6, 14, 17, 27 New Lect, Hall Mr. Cram, 5, 14, 29 Harvard 6 Mr. Lear, 9, 18, 20 Sem, Mus, 1 Mr.Russell, 7, 19, 21 Harvard 5 Mr. Salmon, 8, 10 Harvard 2 Mr. Salmon, 25 Harvard 3 Mr. Williams, 4, 12, 16 Geol. Lect. Rm. History 4 Fogg Lect...
...wrote his Rhapsody in Blue. In a jazz theme, announced by full orchestra, the immortal Liszt, with a diamond in his dinner-shirt, collapses, babbling, on a night-club table; instruments fall silent behind piano figurations for a chorus-rehearsal of skeletons with a solo ghoul in a buck-and-wing dip, while the first cat that was ever killed by Care shrinks in affright from the hard, slit eyes, the waiting jowls of Broadway, the Loop, the Barbary Coast. Said Critic Carl Van Vechten...
...music that stole, with a mutter of muffled tom-toms, out of Africa. It hid with the Norway rats in the hold, of pitching slave-ships; it crawled between the leaves of missionary Bibles to leap out grimacing and twitching, whenever a buck preacher smote the Book with his barrelhouse fist. The cadence of the cakewalk, wild plantation revels, darktown strutters' balls; the frenetic hallelujahs of jubilee revivals where hundreds of Negroes, drunk with ecstasy, wash in the blood of the Lamb, the shifting, subtle rhythms of such spirituals as All God's Chillun Got Wings and Swing Low, Sweet...
Many able adapters of the pit-a-padding rhythms have been concerned with these developments: Fatherly Theodore Snyder, composer of The Sheik; George M. Cohan, the Irish jigamarig, writer of buck-and-wing dips; George Gershwin, ingenius, musicianly; Jerome Kern, melodist; Tintinnabulator Zev Confrey, who wrote Kitten-on-the-Keys. But more important than any of this company is a certain Israel Baline who took the name of an English actor and a German city, became known to the public as Irving Berlin. For the last ten years, he has written a national anthem a year. His prodigality has never...