Antedating of "Jazz Age"

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On 1/3/06, Fred Shapiro <fred.shapiro at yale.edu> wrote:
>
> 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.

Slightly earlier, in attributive usage:

-----
1921 _Coshocton (Ohio) Tribune_ 20 Feb. 6/4 It may have lacked the
smart risqueness of "Up in Mabel's Room," the jazz age salaciousness
of "The Girl in the Limousine" and the racy bits of dialogue of all
simon-pure bedroom farces which seem to excite the risibilities of
many.
-----

There are two NPA cites dated as 1920, but these are misdates for 1926.


--Ben Zimmer