Word: charlestoning
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...Simple Charleston. When he is not dancing, or groaning in a hoarse baritone, he circuit-rides the tables diagnosing customers' needs. Says Bruno: "The aristocracy lives in the nostalgic past; I give them nostalgic songs ... and for that they love my music. If I hear people speaking a foreign language, I always include songs from their countries." Aristocrats and foreigners alike seem to enjoy one of his prescriptions: his dance arrangements of familiar arias from Italian operas. So far he has turned bits from The Barber of Seville, Rigoletto and Trovatore into sambas; one of his biggest hits...
...South shivered in some of the lowest November temperatures ever recorded. Snow fell in Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia: the thermometer went down to 3 in Atlanta, 19 in Baltimore, 17 in Richmond, i below in Nashville, 17 in Charleston, 2 below in Asheville, N.C. Florida's oft-bedeviled 'citrus growers toiled with smudge pots in a battle to save their perishable crops...
...home-state crowd in Charleston, W.Va. Louis Johnson said: "I have an abiding faith that West Virginians and my family will never have any occasion to be ashamed of anything I did, or did not do, as Secretary of Defense of the United States...
...your groping for an . . . adjective to describe Senator Maybank's accent [TIME, Sept. 11 ], you made a poor choice in "molasses." Since he is a Charleston aristocrat, his speech is better described as a brogue, sharp, distinct, and staccato...
After a Washington meeting several years ago, a group of airline men were scrambling to get into the same cab. One of them was Eastern Air Lines' Captain Eddie Rickenbacker. Another was Delta Air Lines' President C. E. Woolman, whose web of routes from Charleston, S.C. to Fort Worth had long acted as feeder lines into Eastern Air Lines' lucrative routes from Florida to New York and New England. Would Woolman mind letting Eddie sit on his lap for a short ride? Cracked Woolman: "Well, Eddie, I've been helping support you for years...