Word: oystering
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...Ocean Park, Wash., fishermen reported that an oyster snared a duck by its foot at low tide, drowned it when the water rose...
...this indoor sport continued. His Majesty's puzzled Poet Laureate, famed John Masefield, whose yearly stipend is ?127 ($508), kept mum as a Cornish oyster, but Mrs. Masefield admitted: "My husband has been approached on the subject, and the quotation in his opinion is the work of a modern poet writing in Biblical style. From the style he thought it might possibly be written by G. K. Chesterton. He went to considerable trouble to try to trace the words, but without success." Sir Edward Denison Ross, the eminent British expert on Oriental literature, guessed that the words must come...
...Henry Latham Doherty, off to a business career at twelve as an office boy for the Columbus (Ohio) Gas Co., the world of the eighties was an oyster and he held the shucking knife. By the turn of the century he was a crack western public utility man, and by the time he moved into Manhattan at 35 to set up Henry L. Doherty & Co. (utilities investments) he was a millionaire and had feathered his chin with a goatish beard to impress Wall Streeters. The beard failed to work, and Mr. Doherty had to borrow money in Europe until Wall...
Kurt George Wilhelm Ludecke, onetime friend and subordinate of Adolf Hitler, had his application for U. S. citizenship turned down in a Detroit court, pending a future hearing. Reason: The judge had read Ludecke's I Knew Hitler, declared Author Ludecke "a cheap politician . . . dumb as an oyster in the shell . . . anti-everything...
...time has come, the oyster said, to talk of many things...