Word: oyster
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lindbergh, who likes to live alone and finds living on an island the best way, bought land on four islands off the Connecticut shore, near Darien. Conn. Former Lindbergh island homes: one off Brittany's coast, another off Massachusetts (Martha's Vineyard). Included: 36-acres of oyster-beds...
...like Lewis Carroll's eldest oyster, Barmine...
winked his eye and shook his heavy head, Meaning to say he did not choose to leave the oyster...
...dress in heavy black crepe, with a short clinging skirt, a pink rose to punctuate the waist. It is worn with a black halo hat trailing a waist-length floating black lace scarf. Then there was an evening gown-33 yards of chiffon shading from deep apricot to pale oyster. At these and 46 other fripperies, in the ballroom of the West End's swank Mayfair Hotel, women buyers gasped with pent-up pleasure. It was London's first "non-austerity" style show in six years...
During the season Mel spends many of his evenings talking shop - often at Toots Shor's, 51st Street restaurant in Manhattan. He is a movie, crossword puzzle and gin rummy addict, and hankers for the better eating places that specialize in bouillabaisse and oyster Rockefeller. He has also been known to fritter away a few dollars, between seasons, on the ponies...