Word: oystering
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Since Sheridan wrote "An oyster may be crossed in love," no one need be surprised at certain experiments now being conducted with the bivalve by the New York State Conservation Commission at Bayville...
...Coaxing oysters to mate is not so easy as it sounds, chiefly because they are not by nature passionate. To get a Cape Cod oyster to look at a Blue Point is difficult enough, but to tease them into falling in love seems absurd. And when it comes down to imploring a Cape Cod or a Blue Point to notice the existence of the bourgeoise such as the East River family, or the "sidey" Chesapeakes, the task appears wholly ridiculous. Oysters are very snobbish and clannish. A Cape Cod never by any chance received an equally aristocratic Blue Point...
...Dawes Committee. Messrs. Barthou and Bradbury were, therefore, presumed to have discussed with Mr. Morgan, details of the loan. It was reported that the great American financier had promised that New York would take half the loan, but no official confirmation was issued and Mr. Morgan himself preserved an oyster-like silence...
...Oyster Bay, Mr. George laid a wreath upon the grave of ex-President Theodore Roosevelt. Attached to his floral tribute was a card upon which Mr. George had written: " To the memory of an attractive and powerful personality, who fought the good fight with radiant valour...
...visit the grave of her son Quentin. Nine months later she went to Brazil with her son Kermit. In January, 1922, she went to Europe intending to go to South Africa, but returned to this country three months later without carrying out her plan. Her home is at Oyster...