Word: jazzing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...harnessed energy of the elusive atom." Great was the uproar next day from thousands of radioites. " Why did you do it ?" the director of the broadcasting programs was asked. His answer was as abstruse as the subject that prompted the question. Henceforth the radio fans are eager to receive jazz. (For a scientific account of this speech, see page...
Paul Whiteman, jazz orchestra leader: " Home from London on the Leviathan, I was met at Quarantine by a band in pneumatic suits. The musicians swam around the boat, playing me a syncopated welcome...
Another prime social favorite in London just now is Paul Whiteman, the jazziest of them all. Whiteman and his jazz band are all the rage in London theatres, the greatest American theatrical success in England, it is said, since Edna...
Paul Whiteman has been taken up by His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. The jazz artist, a big, heavy fellow, stands a foot or so above the Prince, but this disharmony in sizes has not prevented a cordial fellowship. This is quite in line with the none too staid disposition of the heir to the British crown, a disposition which is said to distress and shock the great decorum of the royalty, aristocracy, middle class and working class of England...
...Fools. This picture fractures celluloid tradition shamefully. It has three heroes, every one 60 years old. The heroine (Eleanor Burdman) kisses them consistently on the forehead instead of on the lips. Though the picture is played in a so-called "society" atmosphere, not a flapper or a bar of jazz is introduced. Could anything be more unorthodox? The strain was too great for the nice, old-fashioned director. At the last moment he rushed in a bandolined beauty (male) for the heroine to marry...