Jazz Age

Example Sentences

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Now, suddenly, he was handed a microphone and enlisted as a simultaneous translator for Karel Lamač’s uproarious Jazz Age comedy about a proper Viennese girl who goes wild as a flapper.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 17, 2025

Chicagoans referred to the neighborhood as “Towertown,” and it was where writers, artists, communist revolutionaries and queer folks often lived and even more frequently partied during Chicago’s rowdy Jazz Age.

From Salon • Mar. 31, 2025

Recently he seemed to suggest that the Jazz Age gangster Al Capone was still alive.

From Slate • Nov. 6, 2024

The staging, which can seem cluttered and breathless in the early going, traipses through these seedy locales with a theatrical swiftness that captures the milieu that bred the syncopated rhythm of the Jazz Age.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 4, 2024

By the time the Jazz Age marched in, the Hill was a bustling neighborhood full of music, theaters, gambling halls, and families.

From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland