Word: charlestoning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...moved to Manhattan and met a ragtimer named Charlie Cherry. Jimmie later sweated over fundamentals with an old-fashioned scales and exercises man. In 1912 easy money ended Jimmie's school days-he started playing in cafes. For the dancing pleasure of the "Geechies," Negroes from around Charleston, S.C. and Savannah, Ga., he worked up his noted Carolina Shout. Near Manhattan's 37th St., in the "Old Tenderloin," he studied under Ablaba, a honkytonk pianist with a "left hand like a walking beam." On that beam he modeled his own "walking bass." By 1920 he had what French...
...reason the filariae rarely appear in the circulating blood except between the hours of 9 p.m. and 2 a.m. The larvae are carried by ordinary U.S. mosquitoes. As there is no cure for the disease, the only recourse is mosquito control. The only U.S. area infected at present is Charleston...
From the South, for example, we have graduates of Tulane, Southwestern, Southern Methodist, Louisiana State, Charleston, Centre, Baylor-the Universities of Virginia, North Carolina and Tennessee...
...Charleston's famed Citadel, where military-minded young Southerners go to learn soldiering, a tradition of 100 years was broken when no grits was available for breakfast. Vexed South Carolina housewives started a small boom in hand gristmills, scoured the countryside in search of corn...
Said one countryman: "If you want to eat corn, you'd better be a hog." Headlined the Charleston, S.C. News & Courier: "CALAMITY...