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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations states that it was said by Charles Cotesworth Pinckney when Minister to the French Republic in 1797. A footnote says, "Inscribed on the cenotaph in his memory in St. Michael's Church, Charleston, S.C. What Pinckney really said was more forcible, 'not a damned penny for tribute...
...NEAL T. PINCKNEY...
Died. Josephine Lyons Scott Pinckney, 62, South Carolina poet (Sea-Drinking Cities) and novelist (1945's bestselling Three 0'Clock Dinner); of respiratory infection complications; in Manhattan...
...office on a three-letter word* banned from the mails as obscene. Last summer Williams got embroiled with the Post Office for mailing 300,000 comic postcards that pictured a donkey kicking "cattlemen who voted for Ike." He cashed in on the publicity, legally changed his name from James Pinckney to Cowboy Pink Williams, and campaigned against veteran (six terms) Lieutenant Governor James Berry with the slogan: "It's Berry canning time...
Rounding the corner of Pinckney Street, one soon sees that any changes of the last century are little more than a veneer covering a Louisburg over a hundred years old. The gleaming brass nameplates of the houses might have been nailed on yesterday, but the houses themselves were all built before 1850. The street is paved--but the old cobblestones still show through a dip in the pavement at the west end. The lights which once burned whale oil now use electricity but the modern bulbs, without globes, are fixed into the old lamps. There are not many lights...