Word: oyster
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...than a few, for within a few weeks of its founding on January 9, 1919, there days after Roosevelt's death, the association had attracted many thousand of members. Its aims, as stated in the charter were: "To erect a D. C., to build a momental memorial park at Oyster Bay, Land Island (Roosevelt's home), and to propagate the policies and ideals of Theodore Roosevelt." The first task remains undone, but the other two have been successfully completed, as a thriving park on Long Island and the immense library now in Widener attest...
With Volumes VII and VIII, covering the years 1909 to 1919, Editor Morison and a 21-man research staff have finished their work of sorting and mounting Roosevelt's many-sided correspondence, a work which should provide future Roosevelt biographers with a fine photographic likeness to go by. Oyster Bay's leading Republican, who wrote some 25 books during his lifetime, was quite possibly the most literate tenant the White House ever had,* but he never let his erudition interfere with a good reporter's knack for saying what he had to say quickly and directly. This...
...feet, slicing turkey and spooning oyster dressing, during most of the meal, which also included lima beans, yams, squash, peas, turnips, pumpkin and mince pies. David was back for seconds before the last grownups got firsts...
...former Ibis of the Lampoon, Charles Bracelen Flood '51 began his novel in Professor MacLeish's course, writing about the world he knows best--an exclusive milieu of Oyster Bay, Marlborough Street, Northeast Harbor. Mr. Flood is too much a product of this world to be rewarding to critics intent on the game of pinning the tale on other authors. Except for a brief glimpse of the Tycoon in his Wall Street lair, there is no trace of Fitzgerald's awe in the book's pictures of the twenties. Nor does Mr. Flood have any of Marquand Sr.'s quiet...
Across Long Island Sound, at Oyster Bay, a team of six European skippers raced six U.S. and Canadian skippers to inaugurate an Old World-New World competition in Six-Meter Class boats. Both sides showed spectacular teamwork, covering rivals, stealing their wind while their teammates scudded ahead. In the end, despite the presence of Norway's Crown Prince Olaf at the tiller of one of the European team's six-meters, the New World outsailed the Old, four races...