Word: jazzing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...specialities were exceedingly well received. The jazz band, the instrumental specialties by M. H. Harris '24 and J. H. S. Moynahan '24, and the vocal duets by B. S. Cogan '23 and R. P. Bullard '24 were given encore after encore. The musical numbers were also well received, the best liked being "Won't You Marry Me", "Cuddle Up", "I Thing It's Wonderful", "Southern Shore", and "Back to Back...
...Worcester. The program includes a cornet solo by Hugo Bair '25, and a specialty act of selected popular numbers. The band will go to Worcester by special car, returning after the dance which follows the concert program. Music for the dancing will be furnished by the band's jazz orchestra "Addison Simmons' Collegians...
Among the favorite topics of the day are those which have to do with time. Efficiency experts are as keen for the salvation of a minute as for the elimination of a bead of sweat. Jazz, with its syncopated notes, follows the fashion by trying to crowd more "music" into a shorter period. Nor are legislative bodies free from the influences of this movement. Daylight saving, a recurrent cause of conflict, is merely a means to make the most of recreation hours...
...spectacle of the tragedy of Sheila. Finally she acquires a complete new soul by the convenient expedient of falling in love with Lloyd Haitian d, a somewhat insistently high-minded young lawyer, through whose disapproving eyes the author watches most of the iniquitous pageant of hip-flasks and jazz...
...Prince of Wales: "At Hurlingham, the polo place, I wore a sweater which newspapers described as 'highly colored jazz material.' A style expert said I am like my grandfather, King Edward, independent in matters of dress...