Word: oystering
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With President Hoover's blessing so patently on Brother Theodore's head, it now behooved Theodore's Republican kin to get behind the Hoover candidacy for reelection. The family was scattered. Settled quietly at Oyster Bay was Mrs. Ethel Roosevelt Derby, the President's other daughter. Cousin Gracie Hall Roosevelt was serving as Detroit's comptroller. Brother Kermit was running a steamship line in Manhattan. Brother Theodore, adding fresh lustre to the name, was starting out for the other side of the world. Alice remained in Washington, perhaps to try to woo Hoover support from such a vehement anti-Hooverite...
...think we're getting a pretty fair collection, at least of the land Vertebrates. . . We have managed enough to eat, especially with occasional wallaby gobs, or crayfish given us by Mr. Hosking, the cannery boss, not to mention mutton birds and fish; there is also a remarkably jeestly oyster on the reef to the south, which Dr. Allen and I sampled briefly yesterday...
...President wilfully indulged in falsehoods. A form of self-hypnosis was responsible for his lapses, a kind of fooling-himself-to-believe-things-not-so. He said he was boxing champion at Harvard because he had wished so intensely for that honor. He dodged taxes between New York and Oyster Bay because he was always more or less strapped for money. He tried to bluster out the protests against the Booker T. Washington White House dinner by saying that the Negro leader chanced to be around at lunch time whereas in fact the President had formally invited...
...short the oyster industry in Britain is doing far from well, and I only hope the efforts you are making . . . will soon restore their prosperity and, given a good spatfall, put you once again in the happy position of having a million or so oysters to offer to the public...
Lean Cornish spatfalls will have no appreciable effect on Edward of Wales's income. Beside the Cornish oyster beds, H. R. H. receives the entire income from the Duchy of Cornwall, a thoughtful provision made by Edward III in 1337. Nowadays the gross income is about $1,250,000 a year. After deducting expenses, salaries, donations, H. R. H. has about $25,000 a month left...