Word: jazzing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...guess, is the bitter payment exacted from the gigoles in return for which they have received nothing worth while. In spite of this very worthy but hardly original religious by play, the book leaves the felling that you have been listening to two solid hours of very bad jazz...
...Chinese piece has bits of Russian and a dash of good old Broadway. Albert Carroll and the resident Neighborhood troupe are employed in the performance and give singularly good account. The entertainment provides probably the only musical evening in the city's theatres devoid of a note of jazz or an old joke...
Ladies, lovers, jazz, and what have you? are agreeably combined in these: Sunny; The Cocoanuts; No, No, Nanette; The Vagabond King; Artists and Models; Tip-Toes; The Student Prince...
...rejoicing. Everywhere raucous youth snapped up "Thanks for the Buggy Ride" (words and music by one Jules Buffano; sponsor, an obscure San Francisco firm). Swiftly crabbed age constructed buggies and horses out of beaverboard, harness out of string, snatched wheels from baby perambulators, concocted numberless impromptu window displays. Awed jazz fanciers mentioned buggies and bananas in the same gin-whiffed breath...
...burst of jazz! A season of teas, balls, the opera and other girls' debuts! Heavenly for a year, but like a perpetual diet of whipped cream...