Word: oyster
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...yawl from his friend and benefactor, William S. Hart, oldtime cowboy star of the silent movies. With his second wife, he cruised Long Island Sound for the next eleven years. Wind, water and sand became the essence of some of Dove's best work. Ferry Boat Wreck-Oyster Bay (1931) catches the essence of a lurking hulk beneath the sound's green water and the fiery color of rusting iron; Fog Horns (1929) is an abstraction of sound any sailor becalmed in a fog would recognize...
...earshot at her favored Manhattan watering holes: her credo for frivolous success. Chunks from the eight-lump manifesto, in its current version: "I have developed the fine art of choosing my enemies. Everyone loves truth but nobody says it except me. I firmly believe the world is my oyster. I stay away from geniuses; the men I see most often are Orson Welles, Cole Porter and Aly Khan...
Clam & Dromedary. Where screening fails, footnotes are added: the reader learns that a clam is "a shellfish similar to an oyster," and a prophet is "one who foresees events." Globe's editors seem to have taken great care to snip out words that might enlarge children's minds-even the slow-learning children at whom such books are aimed. In the cut-down version of one novel, the not-too-difficult word dromedary is thrown out for the easier camel-sparing young readers the trouble of adding a new name to the beasts in their mental menageries...
Fresh fruit salad appears in Lowell House about as often as does oyster stew. This correlation may be stated with some exactness, since neither has appeared on the menu during the memory of the oldest inhabitants...
...most awesome to the Lowell denizens, however, were the complaints heard in Adams. "They complained," said one Lowellian. "You know," said another, "those guys looked at the fresh fruit salad, and they looked at the oyster stew, and one of them said to me, 'Oh no, not again...