Word: oystering
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...Olde Oyster House...
...Oyster...
...Odingsell River, Ga., a wild duck plunged his head into the mud, had his bill caught by an oyster which held him fast. Hunters approached, saw the hapless duck, shot and bagged him, with the oyster still clamped upon his bill...
Married. William W. Willock Jr., 21, heir to $120,000,000, grandson of Pittsburgh's late Steelman Benjamin Franklin Jones Jr. (Jones & Laughlin Co.); and one Adelaide Ingebretsen, 20, Willock household chambermaid, lately of Norway; at Oyster Bay, L. I. They met while he was tinkering in his machine shop on his father's East Norwich, L. I., estate. Said he: "My father had a good time getting where he is, and I can have a good time with Adelaide, too." Said she: "I liked him because he was so democratic with all the servants." Willock Sr. declared...
...Conference with brilliant, driving power, was not mentioned as prospective Chairman of the Bank. Taciturn in the extreme with correspondents, he had earned their ire. He would not even give out the text of the Statutes, forced them to get it from Germany's offish Schacht, usually the closest oyster at any conference. Perhaps in irritation the newshawks made little of the fact that Mr. Reynolds went straight from Baden-Baden to Paris for a conference with representatives of the House of Morgan. The reporters favored instead as prospective chairman Chicago's drawling "Mel" Traylor...