Word: jazzing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...body. The thought fastens upon her until she is able to believe it is Karl with whom she lies, by whom she conceives. Meantime Karl thinks he has learned his mistake. Drinking heavily, he prostitutes his Crucifixion theme, twisting its sonorous measures into hip-hitching, gold-getting jazz tunes, publishes anonymously...
...village with his city manners. Unfortunately he finds her sharp and unattractive. The blond hair and blue eyes of his choice are possessed by the daughter of the poor country druggist. Therefore he enters the drug shop, and makes it pay vast dividends by the introduction of a jazz tearoom. The low comedian marries the heiress, and everybody heads for the happy ever afterward...
...have thought, for a cigar puff or two, of widely separated and irrelevant things?of the year he served in the German Army in the early eighties?;-of what Roosevelt once said of him*?of the fact that his son, Roger Wolff Kahn, has organized a very successful jazz orchestra?of the respectful way in which the press is beginning to call him "America's Foremost Patron of tre Arts." Or he might have thought, not without satisfaction, of the banking career whose compact pattern knits these scattered salients. Formerly cashier in a bank in Carlsruhe, Germany, later Vice...
...wild play of Don Passos, 'The Moon is a Gong', which was fascinating by reason of its very wildness. We still can see the mourners and clergymen wearing masks as they came into the house where the corpse was lying, entering to the tunes played by a jazz orchestra...
...first time in the history of the Copley-Plaza, three orchestras will provide the music for a single ball. "Billy" Lozzez and "Bert" Lowe will have the main burden of supplying rhythm for the dancers, the Barbary Coast Jazz band of Dartmouth playing a series of special selections for a short time only...