Word: jazz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...squandered a liberal salary. A large part of it goes to the support of an invalid wife, whom he married 40 years ago with his friend, the late Negro Poet Paul Laurence Dunbar, as best man. A son, who struggles with a jazz band, and a daughter, who has proved an indifferent performer in Negro musical shows, also require "de Lawd's'' financial assistance. Harrison lost money when the Binga State Bank of Chicago failed. But he has a solid investment in two Chicago Black Belt houses. He also has satisfied a lifelong vanity by buying...
...Santa Fe, Argentina, Pedro Candioti plunged into the Paraná River, started swimming 299 mi. to Buenos Aires. Eighty-seven and a half hours later, chilled, exhausted, deserted by the jazz band which had encouraged him most of the way, still 41 mi. from his goal, Pedro Candioti crawled out, claimed a record for endurance...
...World's-best jazz-pianist" Earl Hines and his band are to furnish the music, which will continue until 3 o'clock. Tickets, priced at $4 and $2.50, as compared with $8 and $5 in 1930, may still be obtained at the Naval Science and Military Science offices, as well as at Leavitt's and at the door...
...jazz--now everything is gin and jazz. Why, even fourteen-year-olds go out and drink cheap liquor these days. I guess the Dionne quintuplets are about the only innocents left, but I don't know...
...slick, entertaining film of a modern Cinderella, The Gilded Lily moves plausibly through many plot impossibilities with Miss Colbert looking extraordinarily beautiful in chic Travis Banton frocks. Fred MacMurray, onetime jazz-band leader, dark-browed and handsome in his first leading role, is obviously nervous in some scenes but does, on the whole, creditable work and will probably be hailed as Hollywood's new great lover. Pleasantly directed by Wesley Ruggles, this film just misses being a worthy successor to It Happened One Night, to which it will undoubtedly be compared...