Word: fishnet
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...pong bats, a mummified cow, a supine rubber woman painted to resemble the keyboard of a piano. Whatever this may mean as art, the exhibitors did not dilly-Dali over it. Into the tank they plunged living girls, nude to the waist and wearing little Gay Nineties girdles and fishnet stockings. Swimming, grimacing, doing the Suzy Q, milking the cow, playing the "piano," these Lady Godivers, seen at close range and a trifle water-magnified, should win more converts to surrealism than a dozen highbrow exhibitions...
...bright day last week two young girls from London rowed out from Leysdown Beach near Sheerness. England, after a child's ball that had floated away. Drifting a quarter-mile from shore they noticed near them a line of buoys that seemed to mark no reef, boat-mooring, fishnet or lobster-pot. As they gazed at this strange sight, five planes roaring out from the land circled over them. The girls suddenly crouched cowering in the bottom of their rowboat when the five began to dive on the innocent-seeming line of buoys, blazing away with machine guns. Four...
...house on a platform that must have taken the United Artists carpenter crew months to make (not to speak of the months they must have spent making hollowed wooden dishes, sharpened shell knives and scissors, woven blankets and tapestries, basket work). He has an elaborate machine to throw a fishnet far out to sea, a trolley to carry him down the mountainside. From a savage whom he tries to make his Man Friday, who escapes after Fairbanks has shown him the white man's leg-scissor hold, toehold, and hammerlock, he obtains zinc and copper (cheerfully left unexplained...
...collision in which either a) the destroyer Paulding, scouting at top speed for rum-boats, gored the rising submarine 54, or b) the S-4 "ran into the Paulding." Evidence showed: that the Paulding's inexperienced lookout had mistaken the S-4's splashing periscope for a fishnet buoy; that the Navy had not notified the Coast Guard that submarines were operating on the Provincetown trial course. With regard to the failure to rescue S-4 survivors, the most notable evidence brought out was that the officers in charge had not known about the trick of passing air through...