Word: cumberlandism
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...Privacy: Greyfield, a "slightly decaying" mansion right out of Tennessee Williams, set amid live oaks and alligators on Georgia's Cumberland Island, reachable only by chartered boat or private plane...
...Cumberland Center...
...room responded to a knock at the door and was confronted by seven nude males, each carrying a golf bag. "May we play through?" asked one. In Knoxville, Term., vowing that they would not be "outstripped by any state," scores of University of Tennessee students raced nude down Cumberland Avenue, even taking to the roofs to sit atop a second-story billboard and astride an ornamental bull...
Such a consistent winning record would be an achievement for any large university; for Tennessee State, it is nothing short of remarkable. Just 5,000 students (600 of them white) attend T.S.U.'s red brick campus on the banks of the Cumberland River in Nashville. The football budget is only $268,003, compared with almost $1.4 million for the University of Tennessee. The physical facilities would give nightmares to Bear Bryant or Woody Hayes: a stadium that seats barely 16,000, a dusty dirt practice field, unpretentious locker rooms and modest office space for a coaching staff of seven...
...Newcastle-he fell into a fit of crying-but in two minutes his curiosity got the better of his hypocrisy and he ran about the chapel with his glass to spy who was or was not there . . . Then returned the fear of catching cold, and the Duke of Cumberland, who was sinking with heat, felt himself weighed down, and turning round found it was the Duke of Newcastle standing upon his train to avoid the chill of the marble...