Word: oyster
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...avoided the public eye. She devoted herself to her family and friends, entertained the local Women's Republican Club, was always ready to help charity drives and benefits for servicemen. Every year on her birthday, the family gathered at her Long Island home, at Oyster...
This year, however, the produce entries were virtually confined to a single cornucopian assemblage of 17 varieties of vegetables, submitted by a FORTUNE salesman who "farms" an acre or two of land at Oyster Bay, Long Island. There was no shortage of spectators. More of them, including scores of casual passersby, turned up than ever before, and one interested visitor confessed that "this is my third country fair at TIME and I look forward to it every year...
Each contestant will read a short speech containing key words: oyster, oil, saw, idea, Long Island. Presumably, the girl who most consistently approximates erster, erl, sawr, idear and lonGUYland will be the winner...
...Alsop, now a thin-haired 37, became a journalist when his wealthy Connecticut family (kin to the Oyster Bay Roosevelts) decided that its fat and bookish son was good for nothing else. A discreetly pulled wire got him a job with the New York Herald Tribune. In its Washington bureau, where his first official appearance was at a White House party, he found politics more fun than Proust...
Some of the men started to replan their lives and talked of becoming cooks or farmers. Sex fantasies and dreams declined; sexual impulses disappeared in all but a few. Said one: "I have no more sexual feeling than a sick oyster...