Word: oyster
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sung the oratorio every Christmas for the past 146 years. This season's uncut performance at Symphony Hall was sold out, attracting a devoted cross section of Bostonians to whom the Messiah is as integral a part of Christmas as the Beacon Hill bell ringers or the oyster stuffing for the turkey...
...Bank of England-which controls the currency that finances 40% of all international trade. Clustered near by, interspersed with some 30 churches built by Christopher Wren, are 150 banking houses with such famous names as Barclays, Midland and Lloyds. British banks have for generations made the whole world their oyster, have extensive and direct knowledge of business conditions and customers overseas. Altogether, they have sprouted 500 branches in foreign lands, five times as many as U.S. banks have overseas...
...There are also many good, inexpensive restaurants. Cafe Hilton atop the Better Living Center offers cafeteria-style choices of regional dishes from five gaily decorated international kitchens with entrees priced from $1.25 to $3.25. The Maryland pavilion brings the tang of salt water with its Chesapeake Bay crab and oyster recipes ($3.50). Greece's taverna has stuffed vine leaves and mousaka starting...
...even Mrs. Hoggenheimer could stomach the little o's nauseating ambitions, and up she chucked him into Oyster Bay, where he was at last content to stay, for he had had his taste of society. And vice versa...
Such a snob on the half-shell could only have been dredged by a greatly gifted hand. Yet Cole Porter's Tale of the Oyster has never been published. Nor, until now, has it ever been recorded. It is only remembered by those Broadway theatergoers who, in 1929, happened to see Porter's Fifty Million Frenchmen...