Crossword clues for charleston
charleston
- US city - 1920s' dance
- Lively dance of the 1920s
- South Carolina city
- West Virginia city
- West Virginia capital
- West Virginia's capital
- US city — 1920s' dance
- Really old-school dance
- PALMETTO STATE
- Jazz Age dance craze
- Hoofer's specialty in the 20's
- Dance of the 1920's
- Dance craze during the Roaring Twenties
- Capital on I-77
- 1920s dance
- '20s fad dance
- Fort Sumter locale
- State capital with Yeager Airport
- Dance from which the Lindy Hop developed
- State capital of West Virginia in the central part of the state on the Kanawha river
- A port city in southeastern South Carolina
- An American ballroom dance in syncopated rhythm
- Popular early in the 20th century
- Dance of the 1920's or W. Va.'s capital
- Ballroom dance from the 1920s
- Lively 1920s' dance
- Prince not getting up for a dance
- Dance, though Rachel and son not dancing
- Dance scholar with ten moves
- Dance from Switzerland to city in France at 100 mph
- Dance daily on street during Christmas when retired
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
dance style characterized by side-kicks from the knee, 1923 (as title of a song), 1925 as a dance, from the U.S. city of Charleston, South Carolina, which was named for King Charles II of England.Whether the Charleston (dance) has come to stay or not, it behooves every open-minded hostess and musician to "try it out" anyhow. [Ethel P. Peyser, "The Rotarian," July 1926]
Wiktionary
vb. (context intransitive English) To dance the Charleston.
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 1315
Land area (2000): 4.197619 sq. miles (10.871782 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.078648 sq. miles (0.203697 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 4.276267 sq. miles (11.075479 sq. km)
FIPS code: 13300
Located within: Arkansas (AR), FIPS 05
Location: 35.298509 N, 94.040716 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 72933
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Headwords:
Charleston
Housing Units (2000): 8148
Land area (2000): 7.992815 sq. miles (20.701294 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.679737 sq. miles (1.760511 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 8.672552 sq. miles (22.461805 sq. km)
FIPS code: 12567
Located within: Illinois (IL), FIPS 17
Location: 39.488721 N, 88.178976 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 61920
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Headwords:
Charleston
Housing Units (2000): 44563
Land area (2000): 96.991341 sq. miles (251.206410 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 17.109229 sq. miles (44.312697 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 114.100570 sq. miles (295.519107 sq. km)
FIPS code: 13330
Located within: South Carolina (SC), FIPS 45
Location: 32.789295 N, 79.986255 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 29401 29403 29404 29405 29407 29412
Headwords:
Charleston
Housing Units (2000): 280
Land area (2000): 0.984511 sq. miles (2.549871 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.056622 sq. miles (0.146651 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.041133 sq. miles (2.696522 sq. km)
FIPS code: 13020
Located within: Tennessee (TN), FIPS 47
Location: 35.284366 N, 84.756837 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 37310
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Headwords:
Charleston
Housing Units (2000): 131
Land area (2000): 1.675909 sq. miles (4.340584 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.192500 sq. miles (0.498573 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.868409 sq. miles (4.839157 sq. km)
FIPS code: 12420
Located within: Utah (UT), FIPS 49
Location: 40.466850 N, 111.468680 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
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Charleston
Housing Units (2000): 27131
Land area (2000): 31.603190 sq. miles (81.851883 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 1.102559 sq. miles (2.855615 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 32.705749 sq. miles (84.707498 sq. km)
FIPS code: 14600
Located within: West Virginia (WV), FIPS 54
Location: 38.349497 N, 81.633294 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 25301 25304 25311 25312 25314
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Headwords:
Charleston
Housing Units (2000): 933
Land area (2000): 1.362918 sq. miles (3.529940 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.007717 sq. miles (0.019988 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.370635 sq. miles (3.549928 sq. km)
FIPS code: 12900
Located within: Mississippi (MS), FIPS 28
Location: 34.007514 N, 90.054009 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 38921
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Headwords:
Charleston
Housing Units (2000): 1957
Land area (2000): 4.676643 sq. miles (12.112450 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 4.676643 sq. miles (12.112450 sq. km)
FIPS code: 13366
Located within: Missouri (MO), FIPS 29
Location: 36.921475 N, 89.346426 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 63834
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Headwords:
Charleston
Housing Units (2000): 141031
Land area (2000): 918.508893 sq. miles (2378.927011 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 439.605243 sq. miles (1138.572304 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1358.114136 sq. miles (3517.499315 sq. km)
Located within: South Carolina (SC), FIPS 45
Location: 32.809639 N, 79.991379 W
Headwords:
Charleston, SC
Charleston County
Charleston County, SC
Wikipedia
Charleston most commonly refers to:
- Charleston, South Carolina, the largest US city named Charleston
- Charleston, West Virginia, the state's capital and largest city
- Charleston (dance)
Charleston may also refer to:
The Charleston is a dance named for the harbor city of Charleston, South Carolina. The rhythm was popularized in mainstream dance music in the United States by a 1923 tune called " The Charleston" by composer/pianist James P. Johnson which originated in the Broadway show Runnin' Wild and became one of the most popular hits of the decade. Runnin' Wild ran from 29 October 1923 through 28 June 1924. The peak year for the Charleston as a dance by the public was mid-1926 to 1927.
- redirect Charleston, Staten Island
Charleston is a 1977 Italian comedy film written and directed by Marcello Fondato. It reprises the style of the film The Sting. It was distributed in the U.S. by Analysis Film Releasing Corp.
"The Charleston" is a jazz composition that was written to accompany the Charleston dance. It was composed in 1923, with lyrics by Cecil Mack and music by James P. Johnson, who first introduced the stride piano method of playing. The song was featured in the American black Broadway musical comedy show Runnin' Wild, which had its premiere at the New Colonial Theatre in New York on October 29, 1923. The music of the dockworkers from South Carolina inspired Johnson to compose the music. The dance known as the Charleston came to characterize the times. Lyrics, though rarely sung (an exception is Chubby Checker's 1961 recording), were penned by Cecil Mack, himself one of the most accomplished songwriters of the early 1900s. The song's driving rhythm, basically the first bar of a 3 2 clave, came to have widespread use in jazz and is still referenced by name by musicians. Harmonically, the song features a five chord ragtime progression (I-VI7-II7-V7-I).
The song has been used in a number of films set in the 1920s. Ginger Rogers danced to the music in the film Roxie Hart (1942). In the movies Margie (1946) and It's a Wonderful Life (1946), the song was played during school dance scenes. In the movie Tea for Two (1950), with Doris Day and Gordon MacRae, the song was a featured production number. A version performed by Enoch Light and the Charleston City All Stars has also been used in Woody Allen's 2011 film Midnight in Paris, which largely takes place in the 1920s. The track "Bang Bang" from the 2013 film The Great Gatsby, performed by Will.I.Am, uses this music coupled with (to a large part) the lyrics from Sonny Bono's song of the same title.
Usage examples of "charleston".
In February, to make the tension still worse, Adams had to inform Congress that a French privateer had actually attacked a British merchant ship inside Charleston Harbor.
Cheerful greetings from the other reporters, delivered in accents as diverse as brash Brooklynese and a Charleston drawl, helped dissipate them.
He had cut his earlocks and shaved his beard when he saw how much he stood out among the other citizens and even the Jews of Charleston.
Captain John Allspice of Nahant, he used to trade to Charleston, and he carried a cargo once there of fifty barrels of nutmegs: well, he put half a bushel of good ones into each eend of the barrel, and the rest he filled up with wooden ones, so like the real thing, no soul could tell the difference until HE BIT ONE WITH HIS TEETH, and that he never thought of doing, until he was first BIT HIMSELF.
Gettysburg were still thundering, a Federal army of 18,000 men under General Gillmore, assisted by the fleet, had laid siege to Charleston.
Spots so isolated that until recent years the natives seldom got as far as even nearby Charleston, and even today speak a local dialect composed of English and Gullah, which is hardly understandable to a Yankee.
Gentry did not like or trust Richard Haines, but he knew no reason for the FBI to suspect a Charleston sheriff in either the airline explosion or Mansard House murders.
I knew the air national guard kept some cargo planes at the Charleston airport and that some training flights involved hedgehopping to keep below radar beams.
And babies born in New Amsterdam were Knickerbockers, and babies born in Boston were Yankees, and babies born in Charleston were Jacobians or Cavaliers or some such name.
French operas by Rousseau, Monsigny, Dalayrac, and Gretry, which may be said to have composed the staple of the opera-houses of Europe in the last decades of the eighteenth century, were known also in the contemporaneous theatres of Charleston, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New York.
Now that the bearings of the Dolphin were set, James Playfair had but one thing to do, to decide by which channel he would run into Charleston Bay.
James Playfair threaded his way through the buoys which mark the entrance of the channel, leaving behind the Charleston lighthouse, visible above Morris Island.
James Playfair was wonderfully well acquainted with all the secrets of Charleston Bay, and he guided his ship through the darkness with an unerring hand.
We came here the representatives of an authority which could, at any time within the past sixty days, have taken possession of the forts in Charleston Harbor, but which, upon pledges given in a manner that, we can not doubt, determined to trust to your honor rather than to its own power.
Seabrook and Kiawah islands were some of the priciest real estate in the Charleston area.