Word: jazzed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...obviously on the increase. Last week beady-eyed riflemen from the Hindu Kush and turbaned tribesmen from the rocky plains along the Oxus crowded the theater to watch Maria Montez hiss and writhe through Cobra Woman. At the café, Afghans tapped pointed shoes in time to a blatting jazz band while they guzzled imposing quantities of ice cream and soda pop. Kabul's young beaux wore U.S. zoot suits (but their girls went veiled...
...other field of artistic appreciation is there more interest in stylistic identification than among jazz fans. They are always listening to ancient collectors' items and trying to determine the author of this or that faint one or two bar solo practically indistinguishable from the whirring of the needle rubbing over the worn-out shellac. But the particular creature being described herein is not merely interested in identification, he is obsessed with it. He lies awake at nght thinking up harder and cleverer quizzes. Even the Chemistry Department would blanch at some of the masterpieces he turns out. There are lots...
...comfortably furnished apartments or in damp cellars, Germans clustered around their phonographs and danced to U.S. jazz which the Nazis had banned. Their favorite was a trilingual G.I. jingle, Get Up Them Stairs, Mademoiselle. It consolingly reminded the Germans that the French, too, had experienced U.S. "occupation...
Amid which a howling jazz shrieks in dissonance...
Among venerable establishments like the Three Hussars, the Crooked Lantern and Aunt Resi's, Broadwayish nightclubs sprouted. Racily named Esquire, Zebra and Heidebo, they offered in neat, cultural synthesis U.S.-style jazz and Viennese-style wine (instead of hard liquor...