Word: jazzing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...your way to glory. Her front pages drip with blood, whereas New York's are smeared with dirt. Still, what's the odds-dirt or blood? Both are good for the circulation ! . . . Oh, for the peanut venders . . . that used to enliven our funeral mobs. Anything to jazz up those curiously apathetic groups that huddled on the Westchester Court House steps. . . . Like subway crowds they waited, patient and dull. . . ." World subtitles: "One-Ounce Fag Lifts Counsel's Eyebrow," "Testimony is as Full of Beds as a Barracks...
...like jazz though," concluded Bob. "I can't make heads nor tails of it. I am fond of love songs. 'Let Me Call You Sweetheart' is my favorite on the Victrola...
...York American's Christmas Fund, good people. Don't miss it. Famous musicians, jazz babies, black-bottom wrigglers, prima donnas perform as the freaks are led out. Get the most for your dollar...
...some 200,000 Negroes in Harlem seems to be the best regulated and most content in the U. S. Here longshoremen* heave cargoes by day and frolic by night. Says the author: "It is a far cry from the katydids and crickets of the rural South to the nocturnal jazz of Harlem. A wag once remarked that, 'the Jews own New York, the Irish run it and the Negroes enjoy it.' " In the South the Negro is at his best in the rural districts, at his worst in the cities. As the tenant of a small farm...
...cause of this apathetic condition is difficult, to understand and is, without a doubt, extremely complex. It is probably found in other colleges. Perhaps the supposedly fast lives that we lead in this jazz and cynical generation are conductive to early maturity. Whatever the cause it seems that the indifference of the average student is losing for him some of the zest and tingle of life. He is an old man at twenty. --The Dartmouth...