The Washington times., 1935-04-11
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Oyster Shucker
Spins Story
M'INTYRE TASTE
BY HELEN ESSARY

Everybody knows Marvin Nc
1ntyre is pretty important
around washington. Still, Lyle
Wilson's story about him is at
least surprising.
After Mr.. Wilson had been
enjoying a little book beer at
the Mayflower the other night
the last night of the book
beer Season-with Mr.. R. L.
Polio, he and Mr.. Polio made
a tour of the hotel kitchens. In
the big food supply section,
where the fish and oysters are
kept, Mr.. Wilson stopped to
talk to a colored man who was
shocking oysters.
1t certainly was funny to him,
the colored man said, the way
some pepole was fusSy not only
bout the kinds of oysters they
are, but bout the way they was
Shucked. There was Mr.. Nc
1ntyre, now. He had to have
his oysters Shucked a special
way.
What way is that" Mr.. Will
son asked, encouragingly.
well, when Mr.. Mcintyre
orders oysters and the walters
send down word who they is for,
I juS' sets to work and cuts
hearts out of six big ones. Yes
sir, Mr.. McIntyre's the gentle
man who won't fool with OyS-
ter'S hearts"
you mean Mr.. Mcintyre,
the Presidents secretary"
Presidents secretary" the
cOl0red gentleman dropped his
shocking knife. ono, sir. No,
indeed! you sure is wrong there.
Mr.. Mcintyre, he amt nObOdy's
secretary. He's the Vice Presi-
dent"
Rebecca West is arriving in
Washington tomorrow for one
week of looking us over.
First she will say how-do-you-
do to her old friends, Miss Doris
Stevens and Mrs. Raymond
Gram Swing. After Saturday af-
ternoon, when Mrs. Gram Swing
is giving her a tea party, Miss
West will likely be the prey of
local lion hunters.
The British novelist and critic
said in New York the day she
arrived that she wasn't going to
lecture to America. This is to
be holiday trip. But Miss West
is awfully eager to see the Al
phabetical Government that has
grown up on the Potomac. And
unless she has changed her
ways since her last visit, she's
quite likely to speak her mind
somehow, somewhere.
When she arrived in New York
Miss West was looking extreme
ly well. She is quite handsome,
dresses Smartly. Has nice, dark
brown hair, worn quite short,
fine eyes, and is much enter.
tanned by life wherever she goes.
THE Harsh Voice." her last
book, has been flatteringly re-
viewed.
"Pirefly Flirtatiousness Causes
Flashes in Night-Hopkins BIZ
ologist Checks Up on Love Life
Of Lightning Bug"
DR.. John Bonner Buck has
studied the -hither flash
of the lady FREELY with a stop
watch. And has discovered
that the twinkling of fireflies
over an entire lawn or field
may first be set going by
single pair Of fluttering light
ming bug hearts.
Pshaw, DR.. Buck! Those are
only Baltimore fireflies. Bet
ter bring your stop watch over
to the Lincoln Memorial this
summer when the National
Symphony Orchestra is being
sentimental in the dark of the
moon,
Senator Truman, the hand
some new Senator from Mis-
souri,, is going to study law
in a Washington night school.
Although Senator Truman
has been brilliant Judge in
Kansas City and has had prac-
tica1 experience in law, he
doesn't know much about book
law. He thinks now it's time
he learned some and got a
proper law degree.
If you've been wedding around
in your soggy garden this morn
ing, maybe you'll enjoy this
gardening obServ tion of
Charles w. Warner, intimate
friend of Mark Twain:
what a man needs in gar
dening is a cast-irOn back with
o hinge in it. The hoe is an in
geni0us instrument, calculated
to call out a great deal of
strength at a great disadvan-
tage."
Since Mrs. James H. Wolfe
has been chairman of the Wom-
ans Division of the Women's
Democratic National Commit
tee she hasn't done much pre-.
serving-of fresh fruit. Sailing
down Democratic doctrine has
been her speciality. Her chill
dren, the five big and little
wolverines, have been devour.
ing bought jam and jelly just