Word: jazzing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...took up humor as a profession four years ago," he said, "at the outbreak of the modern generation." And here, Mr. Stewart lapsed into a seriousness which interested his hearers even more than his humor. In the age of the "lowly arts," of crude, bare writings, of jazz, he detects a sort of Renaissance of literature and of art and a new emancipation from the ties of European precedent. Freed at last from conventional forms, America, he predicts, will advance in culture far beyond Europe, which is now a land whose development is stifled by hate...
From time immemorial, when a necessary statute is not enforced officially, the Peepul generously take it upon themselves to act as keepers of the peace. Whether the undergraduate mob who bombarded a certain house on Plympton Street because of a belated burst of nocturnal jazz Friday evening, kept or broke the peace is a matter of opinion. That they enforced obedience to Parietal Rule No. 4, however, there is not the slightest doubt. Plainly it was a public demonstration that the greatest good of the greatest number shall be maintained, even at the sacrifice of alarm clocks, soap, bottles...
...many specialties in the Living Room of the Union tonight at 8.15 o'clock. G. B. Moynahan '26 will give an exhibition of soft-shoe clogging, a line in which he is a well known specialist. He is also leader of the Banjo Club, and plays in the Jazz Orchestra, which has a place on the program. During the intermission Phillip Walker '25 will give a specialty act in sleight of hand...
...Jazz Band, J. H. Wright '25, leader. (b) Clogging by G. B. Moynathan...
...Movies, jazz, and the radio," in the opinion of the meeting of the Harvard Ethical Club, yesterday, is the answer to the question, "What Are the Cultural Interests of Young People Today...