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Morey, morey, fairy story, boola, boola, bah! Hmmph, mmph, wmmph, lymph dee doo dah. Bulldog, wooldog, fooldog, boo. Brewster rooster, roister doister, down the oyster, in the sea. You see, Pusey, we see VC, that's why we see victory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Memento Morey | 11/20/1965 | See Source »

...readily available to everyone that many people who have been going there for years are never entirely aware of its social distinctions. "You never know you're out until you get in," said one visitor. Socially, the Cape's "Big Three" clubs are at Hyannisport, Wianno and Oyster Harbors. Not only do they hold their status because of the social standing of members, but also because they command most of the best facilities?golf courses, tennis courts, docks, private beaches and clubhouses. (Oyster Harbors' members include Paul Mellon and A. Felix du Pont Jr.) This actually causes little concern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Recreation: Splendors at Home | 7/2/1965 | See Source »

Rousmaniers resigned his post as Director of the Fund to run as Democratic candidate for the Town Council of Oyster Bay, N.Y. in the November elections...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Colt Appointed to Lead Fund Drive Next Year | 5/19/1965 | See Source »

...jeune homme" (Follow me, young man). Soon she was wearing a velvet vest embroidered with 240 diamonds. Admirers gave her gilded carriages and chateaux, buckets of jewels, and a mansion on the Champs-Elysées. A U.S. millionaire invited Otero to a simple supper of caviar and oysters-in each oyster lay a pearl. By 1894 she was so rich that she spurned an offer of 10,000 francs for one night, and the luckless man killed himself in humiliation. Young Prince Peter of Russia begged Otero, "Ruin me, but don't leave me." Premier Aristide Briand traveled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Suivez-Moi, Jeune Homme | 4/23/1965 | See Source »

...Ivans" dived lowest over West Berlin's sleek Congress Hall, nicknamed "the pregnant oyster," where West Germany's Bundestag was sitting in a one-day symbolic session. With the acquiescence of the three Western allies that still retain occupation rights in the city, the session had been convened-in defiance of Soviet wishes-to reaffirm West Germany's determination that Berlin will one day be the capital of a reunited Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Berlin: A Simple Signpost | 4/16/1965 | See Source »

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