Word: charlestoning
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...Turkish debutante," one Mile. Nina Matar, performed what she termed "La Charleston Constantinopolitaine...
Captain Ernest Ingram, famed divorced husband of the widow of Enrico Caruso, dashed out upon the floor and gave vent to a "Scotch Highland Charleston...
...Hudson unsuccessfully tried out on its tracks a British steam locomotive, the "Stourbridge Lion." The next year, however, the Baltimore & Ohio proved that steam locomotion was practicable by the successful trip of the "Tom Thumb" at Baltimore. In 1831 the first U. S. steam locomotive, the "Best Friend of Charleston," was running on the first purely steam railway in America-the South Carolina Railroad - from Charleston to HamBurgh...
...last year, critics knew that they were listening for the first time to the voice of Broadway talking in its sleep; they were listening to the hot-lipped, two-timing, razz-m'tazzle moan of the saxophones that chuckle and the whistles that whine in the cabarets of Charleston, Memphis, Chicago, in San Francisco roof-gardens and the honkey-tonk joints of Tia Juana; they were listening to tones as strident as peroxided hair, to rhythms that strutted like Negro girls in diamond tiaras. "The most authentic piece of music," said Carl Van Vechten, "that ever came...
...tableau representing the legend of the Sleeping Beauty, for which all costumes are done in pastel shade. In contrast to this, further down the program, is a plantation scene in full action, consisting of the singing and dancing of the darkies, and an active demonstration of the Charleston...