Word: charlestoning
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Anderson's order seemed effectively timed. At big Deep South Naval installations like the Charleston Navy Yard, it came on the heels of an announcement of general employment cutbacks-at a time when any would-be troublemakers are likely to keep quiet, to keep their jobs...
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Born 48 years ago in Charleston, W. Va., where his father was a coal-mining engineer. Stockly's first bid for fame was on the baseball diamond. Because he was so small, he was a pitcher's despair. A local sportswriter dubbed him "Fly's Eyelash Stockly." However, in time he grew and now stands (unslouched) a respectable...
Martha, with a knee slightly sprained from doing the Charleston, explained the social principle underlying the party: "Anybody can just invite a lot of people out of the telephone book. We invite people who are a lot of fun. Entertaining is like cooking-you've got to have a little pepper and a little salt and a little garlic...
...Yachting staffer is happier with a deck underfoot than the magazine's 81-year-old Publisher, Herbert L. Stone, a small (5 ft. 6 in.), ruddy-faced, crinkle-eyed sailor who has been going down to the sea in yachts ever since he was a boy in Charleston, S.C. In 1908, after working up to be assistant paymaster on the New York Central Railroad, Stone changed his course abruptly. At 36, he took the helm of Yachting, which his friend Oswald Garrison Villard, publisher of the New York Evening Post and the Nation, had started the year before. Editor...