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...English poet. The city and its outlying plantations never looked lovelier: after an unusually cold and wet winter, the azaleas and camellias preened in the soft spring sun; the alleys of live oaks, festooned in Spanish moss, led to another world. And as the torsts came-by tren and plen and cyah (there were even a few treelas in the new pyaks outside the city limits) -they could count on a reassuring new introduction to Charlestonese-and a vague understanding of what the natives were talking about: Lord Ashley Cooper's Dictionary of Charlestonese* compiled by Columnist Frank (Cheaper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LANGUAGE: Sex & Foe Is Tin | 4/11/1960 | See Source »

...Plen's dependable quintet of ace mermen, Art Besworth, Bus Curwen, Lenny Stowell, Bob White and Captain Franny Powers, will see little action tonight, giving way in favor of the "hackers" when an impotent Pennsylvania squad invades the Holyoke Street pool at 7:30 o'clock...

Author: By David B. Stearns, | Title: MERMEN SEE LITTLE TROUBLE WITH QUAKERS HERE TONIGHT | 3/1/1941 | See Source »

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