Word: charlestoning
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...followed by a fine band of music. Lord, how we did marvel to see the church so crowded, the galleries filled with the beauteous ladies of the Commonwealth. Came then events of no great importance until the rendering of a fine ode by a gentleman from Charleston, South Carolina. The first line was, "Fair Harvard, thy sons to thy jubilee throng," but the remainder has slipped my befuddled mind...
...have not had Wade Hampton's equal in the executive mansion recently, though we did have Richard I. Manning for our World War governor. Just visit the campus of the University in Columbia, the College of Charleston or the Citadel, if you want to see the present aristocracy of a great little State...
...Hartman Woodin out of the Cabinet, later killed him. Last week Death struck its first square blow at the Roosevelt Cabinet when Secretary of War George Henry Dern died after a long illness in Washington's Walter Reed Hospital. He had suffered a severe attack of influenza in Charleston, S. C. last spring. In July, weakened by kidney trouble, the 64-year-old Secretary took to his bed never to rise again...
Even more convincing was dapper little Senator James Francis Byrnes's victory in South Carolina over fiery Thomas Porcher Stoney, onetime Mayor of Charleston, and gaunt Colonel William C. Harllee, retired Marine (TIME, Aug. 24). Jimmy Byrnes squeaked into the Senate in 1930 with 120,000 primary votes to 116,000 for Coleman Livingston Blease. Last week, with 250,000 votes to 37,000 for his two anti-New Deal opponents combined, the President's Senate contact man piled up the biggest majority South Carolina had ever given a State-wide candidate...
...January 1816 there debarked at Charleston, S. C. a French fencing master who said his name was Peter Stuart Ney. From Georgetown he fled to Brownsville three years later when some French refugees insisted he was France's late, great Marshal. In the next few years he wandered from town to town in North Carolina and Virginia teaching school. Years later one of his pupils told how he had fainted on reading a newspaper report of Napoleon's death at St. Helena. Found next day with his throat ineffectively slashed, he explained: "With the death of Napoleon...