Word: oystering
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...oyster in Grimsby, England (my native city), with two ordinary mice trapped by the neck and killed. The custom is to feed oysters with barley water in a dish. The oyster one day with shell open was attacked by mice and closed his shell. Thousands of picture cards were sold by Lowthian Bros., photographers. I would not have believed it if I had not seen the animals in the photographer's window. Live oysters are sure mousetraps...
...Delaware Bay, an oyster sucked a little fish into his maw. The fish fed himself fat upon the other fish the oyster ate. One day, grown bigger, he ate the oyster. Last week in Dover, Del., the oyster shell was opened by one Mrs. I. Paul Jones. Out fell the fish...
Just as it is a bloomer to talk about the price of sea foods to a man whose wife has died of oyster ptomaine-a faux pas to discuss prohibition in a house recently disgraced by the tippling of its breadwinner-so it is a serious breach of taste to "speak of earthquakes in California. Ever since the geological disaster in San Francisco in 1906, all convulsions of the earth's crust have been referred to euphemistically; people do not say "since the earthquake" but "since the fire." What must be the courage, then, of Dr. Bailey Willis, seismologist...
Married. Miss Eleanor M. A. Sparks, daughter of Sir Ashley Sparks, head of the Cunard Line in this country, to J. L. Mott III, grandson of the famed plumbing manufacturer; in Oyster Bay, L. I. John Davis Lodge, grandson of the late Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, was best...
...shrewd bid for power, for Caillaux knew that he could never appear before the Senate with any hope of victory unless he gathered the Moderate Right to his standard. He made friends by declaring himself against a capital levy; he stimulated confidence by shutting up like an oyster on the religious question; and for these two reasons he has massed a sufficient number of Senators who are prepared to give him a trial...