Word: oyster
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...TOMboys, Blind TOMS, TOM-tits, TOMcats, TOMcods, TOM turkeys, Long TOMS, the TOM of the tom-toms as words, should be axed. Why should a noble name be subject to veiled insult and subtle abuse? Sir, in the game of Gleek the knave of trumps is called TOM! An oyster's liver is sneeringly called a TOMalley! Why not Peter for the Peepers, Terry for the little girls who break windows and thumb their noses, Bert for the blind musicians of Dixie, Ted for the titmice, Timothy for the cats, Tobias for the Turkeys, Louis or Louie...
...Fred Astaire, brother to Adele. With their help, William B. Leeds, though burned, took Actress Astaire to a doctor for treatment, then packed her off to a Manhattan hospital, where it was said her injuries were not serious. He himself, less severely burned, went to his home in Oyster Bay and mourned the loss of the Fan Tail...
...frail wind moved under dark skies, ruffling the water of Oyster Bay, L. I., and filling the sails of some six-metre boats owned by rich men. Slowly the little fleet beat toward a buoy close to a sandy bluff, rounded the buoy, sailed back to the Seawanhaka Club where at sunset a cannon went off. The two boats in the lead-the Lanai, owned by Harry L. Maxwell, and the Saleema, owned by H. B. Plant-were picked to compete in the six-metre races to be held in European waters this summer...
Died. William Henry Nichols Jr., 54, president of the General Chemical Co., and vice president of the Allied Chemical & Dye Corp. (of which his father, 75, is chairman of the board) ; of pneumonia; at Oyster...
...thus it leaves me wondering what day it will come next week. Finally, it brings good luck. The day after receiving my first copy, I, for the first time in my life discovered a pearl (not, unfortunately, a pearl of great price, but nevertheless a pearl) in an oyster. By using the post hoc, ergo propter hoc argument which is so popular today, might we not say that TIME brought me a pearl...