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Word: jazzing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Glory that was Greece" is a classic example of the worst type of college "humor." Setting off on a questionably clever tangent, it deals, in a jazz improvisation, with Penelope and Odysseus, referred to as Penny and Odie...

Author: By George A. Lelper, | Title: On the Shelf | 2/15/1949 | See Source »

...very pleasant jazz, this Dixieland heard at the Savoy--a jazz almost lost now, for the cash comes to other forms of music. But it's nice to see a beardless youth like Wilber playing it straight, playing it so close to Cambridge, and playing it so well. Wilber on the low notes, Hall on the high ones, and Archey's trombone make the Savoy's offering as good as anything going. Charles W. Halley...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wilber and Hall | 2/8/1949 | See Source »

Last week, as judge, jurors, lawyers and reporters sat listening through earphones, some of her recorded broadcasts were played back in the courtroom. "I love America," said her voice, between recordings of U.S. jazz, "but I do not love Roosevelt and all his kike boy friends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TREASON: Big Role | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

Porter designed a galleggiante-an ornate danceboat seating 150-for the leading Venetian hotel. This pleasure dome plied the canals regularly, with French chef, wine cellar, Negro jazz band and $10 cover charge. As a small boy, Cole had fallen in love with Venice when he saw a backdrop painting of the Grand Canal in the Peru (Ind.) theater; he still thinks it is the best place to live...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: The Professional Amateur | 1/31/1949 | See Source »

...woman who wears her 50s with an air of long-faced gravity, Cissy learned her business the hard way: by getting trimmed the first time out. She paid $500 for a would-be Hildegarde of the pre-jazz era, only to discover, after the act had flopped, that the entertainer's usual price was $50. Now when Cissy sallies into Manhattan each year to forage for her annual purchases (up to $250,000 worth) of artistic merchandise (Rubinstein, Heifetz, et al.), New York managers jovially call to their secretaries to lock up the safe. Recently, when a drunk fell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Cissy's Battle | 1/24/1949 | See Source »

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