Word: charleston
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...write that song last year, knew what the words were all about but it was hard for him to sing them, because black lungs were about all he had left after 40 years in West Virginia's mines. But he sang the song anyway, at a rally in Charleston, and people listened. It was high time to listen to coal miners...
Cleveland L. Sellers, a first-year Ed School student, faces two charges-rioting and inciting to riot-each carrying a ten-year maximum sentence. Abernathy faces identical charges, stemming from a strike of hospital workers in Charleston...
...movie opens in 1923 and immediately reflects the sepia-tinted, ignorance-is-bliss tenor of that carefree era. There are the flappers doing their frenetic Charleston, the dastardly villains and wistful heroines of the silent screen. Soon a couple of European political upstarts make their appearance: A. Hitler and B. Mussolini. Moving through the Great Depression and World War II, the film traces the ever more sophisticated use of all communications forms-radio, candid camera, wireless photos, TV -to capture the substance and essence of the times...
Meanwhile, a large group of peoplegathered around the player piano. which belted out a variety of old tunes. Several people danced the Charleston. Others just danced...
...Charleston...