Word: jazzing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...soldiers' songs sung during that war, nor one of high moral import. We are living in a utilitarian age, and the spirit that actuated that great war appears to have gone. "What have we now? Yes, We Have No Bananas, Take Us To the Land of Jazz, Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here-songs of the vulgar type. "The most dramatic and the most pathetic and most plaintive of all the war songs sung on both sides was Tenting Tonight On the Old Camp Ground. That song was written by Walter Kittridge of the Second New Hampshire...
...Ministry of Labor, acting on the protests of French musicians, ordered 20 or 30 American jazz producers to quit France within five days and confiscated their papers, excepting passports. French musicians claimed that they were out of employment on account of the Americans...
...American jazz artists, much incensed, expect a protest from Secretary Hughes. Vincent Lopez, famed Manhattan jazz conductor, ejaculated: "If this is official action by the French Government it is a slap at America. It seems hardly possible that such could be the case...
Maytime. The famous operetta, which is still a favorite after seven years, has been presented on the screen, minus the music and the swinging choruses. The effect is supremely silly. Sentiment is splashed around with a whitewash brush. An attempt has been made to jazz up this fragrantly simple story of the lovers who buried their love beneath a tree as they were forced to marry others, and had their souls reunited at last in their descendants. Harrison Ford, Ethel Shannon, Clara Bow and William Norris pop in and out of the story, doubling on their tracks through three generations...
Spiderweb stockings, made of thread so fine that it takes 279 miles of it to make a pound of silk, are the latest novelty in women's dress at Berlin. Dealers stated that they were only for show and could not outlast a single jazz...