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Word: calling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...what tendencies he had observed in modern American music, he said that so much was being composed that it was hard to tell, but that he had noticed a bent toward smoother rhythm and harmony "Since I wrote the rhapsody several pieces have been written in the American idiom, call it jazz, blues or what you will I believe that in a few years classics will appear that could not have been composed anywhere except in the United States...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: George Gershwin Forecasts Triumphs For American Composers--Marilyn Miller Sizes Up Paul Whiteman | 1/6/1928 | See Source »

...What can I tell you that is not 'an old story', as I call it? There is little that I can add to my series of articles on 'The College Undergraduate as I Know Him' which you must have followed in 'I Confess...

Author: By G. K. W., | Title: THE CRIME | 1/6/1928 | See Source »

...call them persons, you pay $100," said the Ward Steamship Line. So Mr. Morse thought, and told the purers. "They're really not persons, they're just old bones...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Five Score Indians Discard Identity to Enter Cambridge--Pay Half Fare and Pass Customs as "Old Bones" | 1/5/1928 | See Source »

Ridiculous. The girl was no....ahem..."flapper". Those clear eyes were to transparently frank to habour double meanings, or shall we call it double entente? Was she a philosopher?....Did that noble brow shield an intellect comparable to her outward beauty?..Was this her philosophy of life...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 1/3/1928 | See Source »

...evening of my debut arrived. I danced before a group of people so ... enthusiastic that I was quite overcome. They scarcely waited for the end of a dance to call out, "Bravo, bravo, comme elle est exquise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NON-FICTION: Dancer's Life | 1/2/1928 | See Source »

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