Word: jazzing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...letter from the grave helps Jazz-Bo spring some Georgia camp meeting stuff on the Republican National Committee, and Henry Lincoln Johnson, who eased himself in as National Committeeman in 1920, walks off again with the prize cake. 'Can he strut . . . that's what he never does nothing else...
...college students, in the Middle West, kidnaped young Robert Franks, according to their own confession, and murdered him in cold blood, entirely for the sake of a "thrill." The defense, according to newspaper dispatches, is rallying its forces around a new plea, "dementia jazz-mania," in order to free the confessed murderers...
...Lopez (above-mentioned) digressed to trace the history of the word jazz. Said...
...have been for a long time mak-ing a study both of the word 'jazz' and of the kind of music which it represents...
...origin of the colloquial word 'jazz' is shrouded in mystery. The story of its beginning, that is most frequently told and most generally believed among musicians, has to do with a corruption of the name 'Charles.' In Vicksburg, Miss., during the period when ragtime was at the height of its popularity and 'blues' were gaining favor, there was a colored drummer of rather unique ability named 'Chas. Washington.' As is a very common custom in certain parts of the South, he was called 'Chaz.' 'Chaz' could not read...