Word: oyster
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...travelers found an Oyster in their...
...million five hundred thousand dollars is a fat, legal oyster. Last week, Dame Justice, "scale in hand," or rather, New York Supreme Court Justice Curtis A. Peters, completed his inspection in Manhattan of $2,500,000 remaining on deposit with the Harriman National Bank as the residue of $6,000,000 collected by famed Eamon de Valera in his heydey, from U. S. sympathizers with "The Irish Republic" of which he claimed to be "President...
...years one John Tracy, aged 90, of Pittsburgh, has officially been listed as a deserter from the U. S. Marine Corps. In 1864, while on a ten-day furlough to Baltimore, onetime Devildog Tracy took some drinks, lost consciousness, awoke on an oyster dredge in Chesapeake Bay. He had been "shang-haied." Ill, he was put ashore. The Civil War was over before he recovered. . . . Last week the President signed an act of Congress ruling that Mr. Tracy's desertion was "involuntary." Henceforth he shall receive $50 monthly pension. ¶Said Gov. Alfred E. Smith to President Calvin Coolidge...
Last week champions of the oyster arose with claims of even greater atrocities. Consider the oyster, said they. First, he (or she) is ripped unkindly from the shell, stuck through the flesh with a fork, dipped in a smarting pepper cocktail, partly mangled by human teeth, squeezed down a narrow canal, smothered to death in the gastric juices of the human stomach. How can civilized sensibilities stand for this, asked the oyster's friends. Could a man swallow a slimy, wiggling baby toad and not feel any reaction in his stomach?* Edward G. Boulenger, Director of the Aquarium...
William B. Leeds, tin-plate rich-boy, husband of Princess Xenia of Greece: "Milk squirted, glass flew high and wide as my automobile crashed into a milk wagon at Flushing, N.Y., en route from Manhattan to Spratbrae, my Oyster Bay, L. I., home. The hit horse lay on the boulevard, dead. My automobile burst into flames. I leaped out with a shout: 'Never mind about the fire in the car; let's get this man to the hospital. We can buy 20 cars, but we can't buy another Joe [my chauffeur...