Word: oysterer
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...bohemian gentleman in a flowing black tie, he lives in a famed pink house on the shores of Lake Michigan in Wilmette. His particular joys are a ship-cabin taproom and a handsome table that sinks through the floor. Ben Marshall lightened the tone of the Drake, installed an oyster bar, started serving 50? buffet lunches and $1 buffet Thursday night dinners which were jammed all last winter. It was also Ben Marshall & friends who, under a lease from Metropolitan Life, reopened the Blackstone last month. A quiet, palm-cluttered, expensive place, where total charge accounts used...
...this stuff came into existence . . . and if I were obliged, not to define poetry, but to name the class of things to which it belongs, I should call it a secretion; whether a natural secretion, like turpentine in the fir, or a morbid secretion, like the pearl in the oyster. I think that my own case, though I may not deal with the material so cleverly as the oyster does, is the latter; because I have seldom written poetry unless I was rather out of health, and the experience, though pleasurable, was generally agitating and exhausting." After a pint...
...world has been my oyster-I have opened it and relished it every year for nearly half a century. But this time the world, my oyster, lies right here below me, in its gloriously tinted shell, ready for me to open it and relish it again, without budging very far from where...
...banks. For that job Secretary Woodin had able and experienced assistants. President Roosevelt had asked Undersecretary of the Treasury Arthur Atwood Ballantine and Assistant Secretary James Henderson Douglas Jr., Hoover appointees, to stick at their posts through the crisis, perhaps longer. Mr. Ballantine, a chunky Harvard lawyer from Oyster Bay, L. I., backstopped Secretary Woodin, pointing up matters of policy for him to yes-or-no. Like a chief of staff Chicago's Jim Douglas, an erect and handsome young Princetonian (class of 1920), was on the Treasury end of telegraph wires lo the twelve Federal Reserve banks...
...offices as far as possible with native labor, respects native customs. He knows that a maroon car cannot be sold in Japan because that color is reserved for royalty, that yellow means mourning to the Chinese, that green is bad luck to the Indian. He has a home in Oyster Bay, N. Y. from which he commutes on his sporadic visits in a speed boat. He likes to drive an automobile as fast as it will...