Word: jazzing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Columbus, Ohio, the mother chapter of the Anti-Saloon League published in The American Issue, its official organ, an editorial entitled "America's Strangest Political Campaign." Nominee Smith was described as representing "the sporty, jazz and liberal element of our population." The editorial also said: "If you believe in Anglo-Saxon Protestant domination. . . . you will vote for Hoover rather than Smith. . . . The Anglo-Saxon Protestants, working through both parties, have dominated America and made it what it is today-a world leader...
Mimographer Shaw is a cinemactor, yet no cinemactor, no cinemactress has so ably combined appearance with utterance as have Jolson, Benchley, Shaw. Jolson, of course, is the lone member of the trio who has gone to any film length and observers noted that neither of his two operas (The Jazz Singer, The. Singing Fool) has been all-talk. Both have been all-sound. If Jolson, whose singing can lift a drooping piece, has not been permitted to do an all-talk piece, it is obvious that a lesser player, unable to break into song, must falter when the piece itself...
BLUE SHADOWS - WHAT D'YA SAY: Two musical show numbers. OK. TED LEWIS: play JUNGLE BLUES - A JAZZ HOLIDAY. If you like that sort of thing...
...Green '29, composer of "Coquette," will play the latest jazz pieces, which he has brought back from a recent tour in Europe. The concert will be followed by newsreels and comedy. All members of the University are invited to attend this initial Sunday evening entertainment...
...group of buildings near Broadway, Manhattan, where composers bang pianos and put together the jazz jingles...