Word: jazzing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ties of affection which all right-thinking young pugilists consider themselves conventionally compelled to profess. He makes his home in a Bronx apartment run for him by his sister, often drives to Herkimer for weekends with his mother, hopes to organize the nine D'Ambrosio children into a jazz band in which he will play banjo and clarinet. Last spring, one of his opponents died as the result of cracking his head on the ring floor. Since then, Lou Ambers has attended no prizefights as a witness...
...Sunday evening concerts also will continue, a group of bankers last week spotted symphonic music as a suitably expensive and respectable vehicle for institutional advertising. Heartened by a Columbia survey in which 23% of one program's listeners said they detested "ultramoder. -" music, and 19% cried out against jazz, the bankers' group hired the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra, on a.three-year contract. Starting in November, the orchestra will serenade the U. S. public in a weekly concert under sponsorship of Manhattan's Chase National Bank, Chicago's First National. With each concert, the bankers will give what...
Besides these principal pegs on which Author Dos Passos hangs his narrative, scores of other characters appear, reappear and fade away. Eveline Hutchins, the Chicago Jazz-age girl, attains a Manhattan salon only to end her career with an overdose of sleeping powder. G. H. Barrow, labor-faker, gets a paunch and a fur overcoat by "settling" strikes. Ben Compton, a Brooklyn Jew turned radical and one of Mary French's lovers, finds his life ruined when he is read out of the Party for being a "disrupting influence." All of them - in politics, manufacturing, advertising, Wall Street...
...firms angling for Greek orders were delighted at commands from the Admiralty which sent into Greek waters several crack ships of the British Navy on what Athens newsorgans said was a "demonstration cruise." British armament salesmen then began to make Athens night life pop with champagne and throb with jazz as Greek officers were taken over the jumps of pleasure, with hopes high that they would sign on dotted lines the mornings after...
Undaunted, Clarence Saunders borrowed $2,900 from a onetime employe, made and lost a second fortune in a chain called "Clarence Saunders- Sole Owner of My Name." In 1931 he popped up in Memphis with a jazz band opening for still another merchandising venture. Boasted he: "You'll see yet that I'll build up the biggest industry in the world." That enterprise soon folded and Storeman Saunders, took over the "world rights" to a cleaning fluid called "Evernew," announced he had "thoroughly investigated the cleanser and found it to be the best on the market." "Evernew" also...