Word: charlestoning
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...then for the peace which denied the glory of that war. He shows us professorial chairs being stuffed with industrial moneys, unorthodox belief being roughly wiped out by college officials under pressure from above. The whole era of Mencken, Babbitt, the hip flask and the Charleston is seen with as great a clarity as that afforded by Mr. Allen's now almost classic "Only Yesterday". This part of Wechsler's book is a vivid and illuminating bit of journalistic history...
...London as first Secretary of the Embassy, a doubly important post because Ambassador Whitelaw Reid was in very poor health. It was during that period that he married Caroline Astor Drayton. Mrs. Phillips is a descendant of the Draytons whose name means as much in the history of Charleston, S. C. as her husband's does in Boston. In 1912 at the ripe age of 34, William Phillips retired to become regent of the college and Secretary of the Corporation of Harvard. Short-Sighted Hostess. In marrying Caroline Drayton, Mr. Phillips not only married more family and more money...
...come back, sunburned and hearty, ready to tackle a great many things," boomed President Roosevelt last week to 15,000 whooping South Carolinians gathered on the bare grounds of The Citadel, State military college at Charleston. "I am glad to find on the South Atlantic Coast evidences of what I saw on my trip across the country. . . . Yes. we are on the way back-not by mere chance, not by a turn of the cycle. We are coming back more soundly than ever before because we planned it that way, and don't let anybody tell you differently...
With three weeks of seagoing fun aboard the Houston behind him, the President went to Charleston's grimy old railroad station, boarded his Atlantic Coast Line special for Washington. Shus-sh! hissed the engine. Then shushushushushushs and the train rolled out of the shed in a whirl of smoke. Suddenly there was a great grinding of brakes. The train stopped. A detail of Secret Servants dropped off the cars, ran back through the agitated crowd. Rushing toward the detectives was a squad of sailors, carrying between them a large box. Quickly and mysteriously it was thrown aboard the train...
...White House desk, the first was a detailed report on European affairs from Secretary Hull. Last thing Franklin Roosevelt said before sailing away from San Diego last month was that he was going to avoid foreign entanglements. One of the first things he said upon landing at Charleston was that his "great and earnest effort" would be to "keep this country free and unentangled from any great war that may occur in the countries across the sea." The President ran over this melody again, while Secretary Hull played harmony...