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...ought to consign jazz to a hotter place than this earth. . . . It is bootleg music. Let us curb it; let us put it down; let us outlaw the thing! . . . The jazz hound is the musical bandit, running amuck. You can't purify a polecat. Let us try not to reform jazz, but to stamp it out-to kill it like a rattlesnake. Good music is one of the things that charm the soul in Heaven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Debate | 5/17/1926 | See Source »

...item that has been going the rounds of the papers to the effect that 'a chap who spent $ 1,500 to graduate at Harvard is postmaster in Iowa at $ 24 per year' has been seen by the 'chap' himself, who writes from Polecat's Nemesis, Iowa, to the Magenta." - Alfred Student...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR EXCHANGES. | 4/23/1875 | See Source »

...community having become so refined, the suggestive yet uneuphonious name of the village grated against our finer sensibilities. By a unanimous vote, the name was changed to "Polecat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRICKET. | 3/26/1875 | See Source »

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