Word: charlestoned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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CORDELIA CHANTRELL - Meade Minnigerode - Putnam ($2). Belle of Richmond, toast of Charleston...
December 26, Washington, D. C. evening concert; December 27, Charleston, West Virginia, tea dance, concert, and dance at the Country Club; December 28. Louisville, Kentucky, tea dance at the Pendennis Club, evening concert at the Woman's Club, dance at the Country Club; December 29, Indianapolis, evening concert and dance: December 30, Milwaukee, tea dance given by Mrs. Layman Bournique, dinner and concert, followed by a dance, December 31, Chicago, luncheon at the Harvard Club, evening concert dance: January 1. Buffalo evening concert and dance: January 2, Syracuse, entertainment by F. P. Waymer '26, afternoon concert. The club will return...
...Club at Atlantic City, I went to the railroad station to meet Mrs. Smith and some friends coming from New York. I was 20 minutes early, so a group of urchins with a harmonica attracted me. Espying a red-headed lad among them, I said: 'How about a Charleston, sonny?' The harmonica began to swell; the lads began to dance and wiggle. I tilted my derby, clapped my hands, shouted 'Hey! Hey!' while my foot beat time upon the sidewalks of Atlantic City. My wife and friends arrived, watched, were amused. When the lads were exhausted...
...Parker Gilbert, Agent General for Reparations, economic "Emperor of Europe," aged 34: "I rarely dance. But my wife was declared last week at an elite and informal dancing contest in Berlin the best Charleston dancer present. Despatches rumored my vexation at the alleged ribald shout of a U. S. youth: 'Ray for you, Mrs. Gilbert! I'd like t' see y' "Black Bottom...
...headed Preston not to lose his temper at Stephen in the Penmarch library right afterwards. The frigid formalities of a "meeting" completed, he drew his pistol and fired. Cordelia, sure in her purpose, was there to knock his arm aside, so Stephen was not hurt, but Preston left Charleston believing in his New England heart that there was blood between him and the Chantrells, his best friends...