Word: jazzing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...three-Diana, the eldest, is cold, fascinating, a little cynical, dangles her feet over innumerable precipices, and has always managed to pull them back in time; Claudia, the second daughter, is an instance of war-marriage in haste and equally hasty repentance; the youngest is Sheila, of the jazz...
...JAZZ MANIA-There is a queen, a Balkan country of the type that figures very prominently on the map of Hollywood and not so much so anywhere else, a newspaper reporter who is a go-getter to the extent of going and getting the queen. She (the queen), is full of fun. She likes dancing considerably better than governing, and the heroic copy-hound less than either. Elements involved are tabloid revolutions, aeroplane fights, a New York cabaret, and continuous dancing, with or without provocation. The queen being Mae Murray, that is all very predictable and completely satisfying. BRASS-Philip...
...mannerisms of speech, bearing and thought that are exceedingly difficult for the outsider to produce. Singers from the north of Italy try vainly to catch the singular nuances of the Neapolitan songs. They sing the notes correctly, and achieve about the effect of an orchestra of good musicians playing jazz-accurately on the beat. But when Isa Kremer intones the chants of Naples, you might easily mistake her for a Neapolitan...
...Newark Almshouse two old ladies bobbed their hair preparatory to participation in a " jazz " dance...
...from the 1923 Pi Eta show, "First Down Egypt" will be presented after which the Gore Hall Jazz band, better known as the "Irresistibles", will give a program of the newest dance music. J. H. S. Moynahan '24 and G. B. Moynahan '26 will complete the entertainment with instrumental novelties...