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Word: jazzing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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This evening's program promises much variety, as jazz music and football songs will figure in the concert. The music in general will be of a light nature...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MUSICAL CLUBS ENTERTAIN AT PRINCETON TONIGHT | 11/9/1923 | See Source »

...jazz-bitten but charming Leila...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: View with Alarm: Nov. 5, 1923 | 11/5/1923 | See Source »

...left alone, to seek out and watch over his real father, Franklin Mills, the dominating " leading citizen" of a nearby city. He obeyed?and in what strange ways he came into contact with his father and his father's family?how he did his best to steady his jazz-bitten but charming half-sister Leila?how he fell in love with Millicent Harden whom Franklin Mills himself was thinking of marrying?and how at the last, when the house of Mills' self-absorbed pride had fallen to pieces about him, Bruce was able to share with his father the hope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Janet March | 11/5/1923 | See Source »

...method is to dissolve the mystery of grand opera, to destroy the traditions that it is only for the highly cultured: to exploit the human pull which lived in the hearts of great composers and which now lives in their compositions. Jazz we hear and forget. Its lilt wears for the moment and then fades. But even the most untutored in music can retain the memories which a great composer's idea inculcates into a musical drama...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WANTS TO BRING FINE ARTS TO THE MASSES | 10/26/1923 | See Source »

Fifteen Smith Halls musicians answered the call to form a dormitory jazz orchestra Saturday afternoon, in Smith Halls Common Room, and gave Smith Halls the lead in beginning dormitory social activity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Smith Halls Forms Jazz Band | 10/1/1923 | See Source »

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