Word: charlestoning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Confidence. The Governor and Mrs. Dewey visited St. Patrick's Cathedral, where Al Smith's casket lay, then boarded the ten-car train for Charleston, W.Va. The Governor was in a confident mood. This mood the Governor carried into his speech that night. Clearly he felt that he had taken the Champ's hardest blows, and that his own steady body-punching was wearing his opponent down. The speech kept up that hammering of the Administration...
Ahead of him now lay the last month's crucial rounds, with speeches in Charleston, W.Va. (48 hours after Franklin Roosevelt), New York, Boston, Chicago, Minneapolis, and perhaps St. Louis...
When the South Carolina State Constitutional Convention assembled in Charleston in 1868, Gideon Jackson was one of 76 Negroes among the 124 members. Scorned by the sulking gentry, berated by the press, abysmally confused, most of them despaired of accomplishing anything...
...four long weeks he had slept twelve hours every night in the indolent air of Hobcaw Barony, Bernard Baruch's 23,000-acre South Carolina plantation, 60 miles north of Charleston. He had sunned himself on the pier that juts out into the brackish waters of Winyah Bay. He had cast for bass in plantation ponds, gone crabbing and snagged eels from the pier, fished up & down the Black and Waccamaw Rivers on a 54-ft. Coast Guard patrol boat. Under a canopy of blimps and patrol planes, he had trolled for bluefish and bonito 15 miles...
...Skinny Wainwright's mother's side stood Grandfather Edward Serrell, who devised the "Swamp Angel"-the great 8-in. Parrott gun which was skidded across swamps, set upon piling and used to hurl 200-lb. shells into the heart of Charleston...