Antedating of "Jazz Age"

[Fred Shapiro]

Popularized by F. Scott Fitzgerald, but apparently not coined by him...


jazz age (OED 1922)

1921 _Chicago Tribune_ 13 July 17 (ProQuest)  "It's a jazz age," said he.
"People are too busy, too happy, too unconcerned to keep up a home.

1921 _L.A. Times_ 10 Aug. II1 (ProQuest)  Greater economy in everyday life
he says would result in young men marrying and establishing homes of their
own.  The "jazz age" is responsible, he insists, for the present wave of
crime.

Fred Shapiro


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