Word: oyster
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Justice, Harry M. Daugherty, as vile an insect as ever crawled across the page of time. He consorted with criminals and took as his bedfellow a grafter and bribetaker [Jesse Smith], who afterwards suicided. . . . Coolidge never lifted a hand. He remained as mum and inactive as a Boston oyster stranded on the beach in the month of August. . . . "Coolidge to this day retains Andrew W. Mellon as Secretary of Treasury. When Mellon was appointed, the great financial interests no longer exercised a mere influence - they moved in and took possession...
...Swedish six-metre boat May Be won the Scandinavian Gold Cup from the boats of eight nations last week at the Seawanhaka Yacht Club, Oyster Bay, L. I. The cup, donated by the Nylandska Jakt-klubbens (Finnish yacht club) was won for the U. S. last year by the yacht Lanai. Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Norway, Italy, Holland, Germany and England (with a bright scarlet sailboat) challenged. The U. S. defender Lea and all but Sweden, Norway and Finland were eliminated in preliminaries. Each then won two races; Sweden drifted through an almost airless afternoon to win a third...
Married. William Beebe, 50, famed scientist, explorer, author; to Miss Elswyth Ricker ("Elswyth Thane"), 27, novelist; on a yacht off Oyster Bay, L. I. Present were Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt Sr. & others. Mr. Beebe was divorced from his first wife, the onetime Mary Blair Rice, in 1913. One week later she married one Robin Niles of Manhattan...
...circus! When Lindbergh has crossed the bar in the Spirit of St. Louis and there are no more rivers to cross; when Coolidge and Rodgers play at Waldron's and an oyster is good for a hit in the ninth, then and then alone, and so forth. There are those, ladies and gentlemen, who prefer the bull fight; there are those who prefer the cock fight; and "Ghost Train" still draws crowds; but, and here may I quote Hamilton Jefferson Detroit Plymouth who said, "If a circus have but a single ring, that ring rings true...
...Twas a fat oyster; and the present Irish Free State was suing to obtain this sum on the ground that it (the Irish Free State) is the "successor" of the Irish Republic. The dispute grew strong, because Eamon de Valera was present early in the trial with counsel to argue that the money should be turned over to himself and followers who collected it. Each side "with clamour" pled the laws...