Word: charlestoning
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...Charleston youth sees the Yankees fire on Fort Sumter. A Baltimore clerk gets caught in a riot. Grant thinks. Someone preaches a pro-slavery sermon. Lincoln thinks. A Yank soldier, intoxicated in New Orleans, raves against Creole gentility. Richmond's Spinster Araminta steals a loaf of bread. An old Jew beats a Negro woman for her prejudice against Jews. In the lull of battle, Cecile bestows her virginity on her Confederate fiance, to make his respite happy. Gettysburg scenes. New York draft riot scenes. Fragments of letters, newspapers...
...York Times. At 8 he masticates eclectically. After breakfast someone reads a Bible for ten minutes. At 10 dark glasses are put on and John D. goes out for golf. The whole year he never loses more than three balls. When he wins he does a happy little Charleston. If a flapper is around he may remark: "You ought to kiss my hand for that." The flapper usually complies, and gets a dime...
Suggest reporting among "Kudos" the awarding to Du Bose Heyward by the College of Charleston (S. C.) on May 14 the degree of LL.D. Mr. Heyward is a native of Charleston and the author of Porgy, Angel, Mamba's Daughters, etc. The College of Charleston was founded...
...Christmas trip, which will last from December 26 to January 2 inclusive will cover an itinerary from Kentucky to New York. Beginning December 26, concerts will be given in Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Louisville, Charleston, Washington, Wilmington, New York and Philadelphia on successive days...
Died. Col. William Stewart Simkins, 86, of Austin, Tex., professor-emeritus of law at the University of Texas; in Austin. On the morning of April 12, 1861 so the story goes, a Confederate sentry on duty near Charleston Harbor fired an alarm signal which opened the bombardment of Fort Sumter. The sentry was William Stewart Simkins...