Word: jazzing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...veritable bucket-shop bedlam, with twenty-one thousand transmitting stations between the Great Lakes and the Rio Grande. The government itself has begun to display distress signals. The Kellogg-White Federal Radio Control Bill has been introduced to bring some sort of order out of the present chaos of jazz-bands, sermons, crop reports, and sporting syndicates running simultaneously on the same wave lengths...
...Hector's orchestra gave an interesting musical program ranging from Beethoven's finale from the Fifth Symphony to selections of classical jazz, whatever that may be. Next week Miss Bushnell takes the leading role in "Enter Madame...
...being informed of the broken engagement, remarks "Geoffrey, dear, tell them to put up my carriage, I shall stay to lunch"-admirably characterizing as it is-sets the pitch of the entire performance. In such a setting, the ranting of "Mrs. Borridge" is as out of place as a jazz band at a prayer meeting. Author and producer alike seem to have flown off the handle after two and a half hours of the finest comedy...
...would put a quietus on the local earthquake. They even went so far as to whip Voltaire's poor old-Candide because he had merely seen a Portuguese eat a piece of bacon. Now it is the astronomer's turn to be whipped. And some people even hope that jazz and the hip-hoorah of modern Pep will drown the roar of the sidereal universe. None of these, of course, considers that one shift of the celestial pole in a mere 25,000 years will make grass grow on the present north pole and put jelly fish in even...
Perhaps some critic of the next century investigating the dusty worn volumes of today will discover a master piece which has escaped unsuspected. "Tales of the Jazz Age" may turn out to be a second "Decameron" or "Conles Droliques"; "Java Head" another "Moby Dick...