Word: jazz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bewildered by the election itself. Imagine our chagrin yesterday afternoon, when, crossing the square towards Lehman Hall, we were nearly decapitated by the speeding lorry of one of the merry mayor-making factions. We were deafened by the sound-effects which oozed from all over the wagon, playing some Jazz ditty on the honest Mayor Russell. But we were flabbergasted to read this timely inscription on its side, as we scurried out from under it: "Vote for Mayor Russell and a New Deal in Public Safety...
...Brooklyn's streets, under the elevated tracks. Later she studied with the Metropolitan Opera Ballet and briefly in the Isadora Duncan and Fokine schools. In 1929 she was the only dancer at Austria's Salzburg Festival, startled sedate Europeans by her renditions of jazz and Negro spirituals. In spite of her formal training, Tamiris considers herself largely self-schooled, likes to think of her dancing as part of an indigenous U. S. culture...
Jovial Edward Kennedy ("Duke") Ellington, Negro jazz-band leader, back in Manhattan after a two-month concert tour in Europe (TIME. June 12), declared the Prince of Wales had missed a train to hear his orchestra play in Liverpool. Said he: "Next time I saw the Prince of Wales was with a party of grand people in London. He says to me: 'I stayed over in Liverpool to hear you play.'Well, sir, what a fine spot for me to tell him, 'You're tellin' me, Prince, with 5,000 people banging on the doors...
...surreptitiously snapped queens of the famed "strip" routine in the split-second of removing their last skirt and flouncing into the wings. He had caught the slovenly posturing of the chorus on the runway. Other series showed the chorus of Take a Chance (TIME, Dec. 12) swirling their skirts, Jazz Singer Ethel Merman in consecutive poses of singing "Rise and Shine," colored Ethel Waters singing ''Stormy Weather," Actress Lynn Fontanne Lunt making up her face, and the show girls of Manhattan's low-priced Paradise night club stepping languidly onto the floor, topheavy in vast headdresses. From...
...soft-spoken orders are a far cry from those used by white bandmasters. At rehearsals, where the routine request would be for a presto or an allegro con spirito, Ellington says. "Get off, now- Sock it!" Where symphonic conductors would call for a solemn andante the hot jazz command is, "Come on, boys, go to church...