Word: oystering
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During the season Mel spends many of his evenings talking shop - often at Toots Shor's, 51st Street restaurant in Manhattan. He is a movie, crossword puzzle and gin rummy addict, and hankers for the better eating places that specialize in bouillabaisse and oyster Rockefeller. He has also been known to fritter away a few dollars, between seasons, on the ponies...
...Margaret's light blue living room, where her parents drop in for after-dinner parlor-sitting. They noted the titles of her unexceptionable books (101 Greatest Mystery Stories, It's Always Tomorrow, Gone With the Wind). They got a careful eyeful of Mrs. Truman's oyster white corner bedroom and the President's big bedroom with the blue-canopied bed. In the next-door oval study, on the glass-topped desk, now knickknackless, they spied the 1945 annual of Independence (Mo.) High School, dedicated to Harry Truman...
...something far away. On this Sunday, the first after Easter, the people of all the towns in the Neckar Valley were out in force for the great weekly business of churchgoing. The big men were richly dressed in tail coats and high hats, their great stomachs resplendently vested in oyster white or French grey...
Shortly before he died, in his 78th year, the artist summed up the major interest of his working years. Said he: "If I had been an oyster, I'd have drawn girl oysters. Wherever I looked I saw those beautiful girls, and who was I to resist...
...bedroom had a refrigerator and bar and an oyster-white rug, often littered with phonograph records or clothes. She liked to be interviewed in bed in the late afternoon and sometimes leaped from the covers in a transparent nightgown to admire herself in the mirror. Sometimes, at parties, she raised her dress neck high, to show that she had a compact little body and a magnificent overall...