Word: charleston
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...West Virgina got? Senator So-and-so, I suppose, and Senator Whozis. I never heard of them. They can't stack up against Fess and Willis. I live only 50 miles from the Ohio River (you notice it's called Ohio River) and often see copies of the Charleston Gazette. They're hardly literate even on their newspapers...
...when one's auditors over failure. In an ecstasy of optimism one might take this game as an indication on return to an age of brilliant intellectualism, the rise of pootics and the decline of petting. To the calloused, however, who have successively witnessed the reign of crossword puzzles, Charleston and channel swimming, "Ask Me Another" means only a brief respite from insanity. For a few months Webster and the Britannica will be best sellers; but in the end the nation will remain untainted by the renaissance of learning. Thinking offers amusement for those who have never tried...
...recent journey of the Instrumental Clubs has brought many letters from the men sponsoring the concerts in the various cities. Regent Matthew Luce '91 has received a letter from J. A. Thayer '15 of Charleston. W. Va., who wrote: "The excellent performance, exemplary conduct, and fine impression generally on this community deserve a word of praise...
...road gang. Buck Merritt gets his pardon just then and comes back for Angel and Little Buck. The primitive feelings of mountain people are conscientiously concentrated, but drama is not felt, as it was in Poet Heyward's other story, Porgy (1925), about a purple-black beggar of Charleston. He has let the beauty of his new locale run away with him. What he should have written was an idyl. What he has written is a poetic scenario...
...that women, led by the U.S., will soon be wearing trousers. 'And,' said I, 'they will not be a mere short-lived fad; they will become as inevitable as bobbed hair, which is here to stay.' I accompanied my pronouncement with sketches of prospective trouser-designs: The 'Shepherd,' the 'Charleston,' the 'Elastic Sheath...