Word: charleston
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...General of the Association quarreled with the captain and fired him. There also the chief engineer obtained a lien on the vessel for unpaid wages. Also, the chief steward was arrested for shooting a woman there in 1914. On the return journey, the boat collided with a dock at Charleston (S. C.) and injured herself...
James A. Rumrill Graduate Scholarship--John Wilson Bowyer A.M., Lexington, Va., A.B. Washington and Lee University 1921, A.M. ibid. 1922, Acting Professor of English, College of Charleston, English. Gorham Thomas Scholarship--Albert Harold Blatt 1G., Cambridge, S.B. 1923, Edwin Austin Fellow, Candidate for A.M., Chemistry...
Some of the proceedings are written as penetrating satire; most of them are slapstick comedy. The former gives the latter just salt enough to make the whole a popular dish. The whole cast plays with the enthusiasm of a negro chorus breaking into a Charleston and their leader, Elliott Nugent, gives a brilliant performance as the Poor Nut who fooled the squirrels...
...father is conscious of the peculiar individ uality of the transmontane commonwealth. Wherefore, a joint resolu tion has been introduced into the West Virginia Legislature to change its name to Kanawha. "We need a distinctive name," editorialized one time (1911-17) U. S. Senator Chilton in the Charleston (W. Va.) Gazette. "Then the dumbbells would have to learn it as they have learned Oklahoma. . . . Who is not tired of explaining to the morons that Wheeling is not on the James River...
...best editorial ($500)? to The Charleston [S. C.] News and Courier on The Plight of the South...