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Word: jazzing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Usage:

...roadster, there is another which shows a radio fan in the midst of his revelry. And so tomorrow, or whenever roadsters and radios are superseded by other curiosities, the archeologists will find new fields for delving and a future Taylor can expatiate on the involutions of "The Jazz Mind...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GARGOYLES--IN MODERN DRESS | 5/12/1927 | See Source »

...Scripps-Howard News, which is served by the apparently heinous United Press. The News printed two accounts, one from a United Press man and one by the Associated Press, which serves the gambling Post but whose report on the Presidents speech Publisher Bonfils had seen fit to hash, jazz, garble and publish without naming its source...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Mania | 5/9/1927 | See Source »

...this performance, which will be the first in Cambridge, the Banjo, Mandolin and Vocal Clubs will perform first and will be followed by an 11 piece Freshman Jazz Orchestra. Specialty acts will be interspersed throughout the program. B. D. Hanighen '30 will lead the Banjo and Mandolin Clubs while A. A. Holbrook '28 will lead the Vocal Club...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOUR CONCERTS. ANNOUNCED BY 1930 INSTRUMENTAL CLUB | 5/6/1927 | See Source »

Howells is an author who has been too greatly neglected in these modern days of jazz novels, Percy Marks, James Oliver Curwood, and the ever-satisfying tabloid. He is one of those excellent Victorian writers whose works have been neglected simply because he was a Victorian. In the same category falls Joel Chandler Harris, a writer of immense charm and once of great popularity. To the shame of present day taste even Harris Uncle Remus stories are not now very widely read...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STUDENT VAGABOND | 5/5/1927 | See Source »

...most prominent of the younger royal set, having substituted a felt hat for a crown and flannel trousers for princely regalia, is said to have been a disappointment to Spain. Evidently Spain expected a more traditional sort of dignity. The sobriquet that young Edward earned was "Prince of Jazz", and the epithet does not seem to have been meant favorably...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNEASY LIES THE HEAD . . . | 5/5/1927 | See Source »

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