Word: jazzing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Launches plying to the vessel charge about $70 per person for the round trip. The fee to go on board is $5. A Negro jazz orchestra, a ballroom, a dining room, a bar for both sexes, movies after midnight, staterooms for spending the night and a miniature reproduction of the Statue of Liberty are provided. With the exception of the ballroom and the Statue of Liberty, the use of everything costs extra. The prices for drinks include: Scotch highball, $1 Dry gin rickey, $1.50 Silver fizz, $1.50 Holland gin drinks, $2 Sloe gin buck, $2 Champagne, $15 a qt. Sparkling...
...have no hesitancy in saying that the ordinary political speech, as we have known it for years to be delivered from platforms in political campaigns, will not go at all with radio audiences. They will tune out in the middle of it and get some station that is sending jazz or a symphony concert...
...crude sprinkling of society functions, jazz-parties and glimpses into Apache-dens of Paris fail to help this mediocre picture...
...with his wife, Grace La Rue, singer; George H. Doran, famed publisher; Ben Ali Haggin, designer of Ziegfeld tableaux; Arthur Hopkins, producer; John Conley, "tin foil king"; Mrs. Otto H. Kahn, wife of the famed banker, with their 17-year-old son, Roger W. Kahn, famed saxophone player and jazz leader; Mortimer Slater, Editor of the Jewish Morning Journal...
...Jazz addicts who fail to get sufficient syncopation over the radio should personally tune in on Kid Boots, Chariot's Revue, Poppy, I'll Say She Is, Keep Kool