Word: jazz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...calmy, self controlled face chatted along about her life and contacts in a very amiable manner. "I like really her music, though you might not think so, such as that played by Cab Calloway or any other colored orchestra. All the big orchestra leaders, Ozzie included, like the jazz played by negroes. Such a tune as 'Christmas Night at Harlem' is my idea of a really good piece...
...used to be a bullfighting tradition that, just as no white jazz band can match the primitive rhythms of a Duke Ellington, so no truly great matador was ever born north of the 40th parallel of latitude (about 30 miles south of Madrid), or south of Gibraltar. This tradition of Andalusian superiority suffered a heavy blow with the rise of the Madrileno Marcial Lalanda, the greatest money-maker in the ring few years ago. It suffered still more when a series of once despised Mexican matadors began coming to Spain, winning fat contracts and great salvos of applause.* Spain...
...there (at Oxford), with his wife, two stepchildren. Though the Sound and the Fury (1929) made him one of the coming young men, he is a lion whom Manhattan hostesses have fret to capture. He fills big pages with his tiny script, likes, to write to the accompaniment of jazz records. He indulges in solitary golf, shaves irregularly and appears easy-going but, says he: "Ah write when the spirit moves me, and the spirit moves me every...
...procession a small girl carried a placard on which was a picture of Divine and the words: HE IS GOD ALMIGHTY. A banner tied to Divine's autogiro answered in red letters: PEACE TO THE WORLD-FATHER DIVINE'S MISSION. Truck-mounted hands moved slowly forward, playing jazz. The marchers sang: "I can't give you anything but love, father." Between hymns they chanted steadily: "He is God, he is God, he is God." Silently the sidewalk world listened, stared. The procession arrived at the Harlem Hospital. "Get up out of yo' beds...
...film shows the amazing social changes during the past two decades. Starting with the War, it carries through the times of unrest, strikes and the jazz age. It recalls the boom and the crash--and the thousand and one things that brought bewilderment to the average man who looked at the constant changes...