Word: charlestoning
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...proud, slumbering, self-contained city is Charleston, S. C. Charleston society, penuriously descended from South Carolina's ante-bellum aristocracy, looks down on rich Yankees who have bought and restored great estates, on Northern industrialists who in the last ten years have built factories on the city's outskirts-looks down even on the rest of South Carolina when it stoops to push for prosperity. The temperament of old Charleston invigorates the bosom of 71-year-old, baggy-suited Dr. William Watts Ball, editor of the Charleston News & Courier...
Barrelhouse music is the sort of piano music you hear coming softly through the flaking shutters of the questionable little frame houses on the streets down by the railroad station in Charleston, Memphis, Birmingham, Mobile. Still preserved here & there in the squalid social amber of the deep South, it is a fusion of ragtime and blues that flowered in the 20th Century's first decade. And it is important as a U. S. folk-music form because it almost died giving birth to jazz. It got its name from the place where it was (and occasionally still is) played...
...wrong with most Jitterbugs; that while rather stupid extremists could be found now and then, extremism of an asinine variety is not peculiar to the Jitterbug world. He adds the rather telling point that Jitterbugging to the stimulus of a couple of cokes is much better than doing the Charleston--badly--to the tune of bathtub...
...province of Dixie, were uniquely the South of Thomas Jefferson. The cheerful landscape and crisp air of the Piedmont were a world apart from the swampy, dream-like, hunting lowlands of the South Carolins coast, or the immense sugar plantations that lay along the broad Mississippi in Louisiana. In Charleston was concentrated an urbane civilization that drew its lifeblood from rice and cotton. Along the palm-lined Battery strolled such elegant Huguenot grandees as the Manigualts and Ravenels, who every year spent a gay social season in the city, replete with races, receptions, and balls. In lively Creole New Orlcans...
Governor Homer Adams Holt of West Virginia, faint kin to U. S. Senator Rush Holt, donned old lace and a veil, clutched a large bouquet in a Charleston Junior League revue called Dream of a Clown. Flower girls to His Excellency's bride were former Governor Herman Guy Kump and Walter Eli Clark, Charleston publisher and onetime Governor of Alaska...