Word: octopi
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...types. The hero is strong, courageous to a fault, and kind to kiddies. The heavy is wealthy, unscrupulous, and abominably clever. A couple of characters like this can make a picture dull under any circumstances, but when the whole improbable business is set in the languid South Seas amid octopi and dancing girls and crusted with miserable dialogue, the boredom reaches epic proportions...
Their itinerary lay down a thousand miles of Lower California coast, around Cape San Lucas and up into the gulf of treacherous repute. They collected fish, snails, crabs, sea worms, sea cucumbers, sea cradles, sea urchins, sea hares, starfish, octopi, mussels, anemones, shrimps, limpets, conches, sponges, hundreds of other creatures with fancy Latin names. Although they were not looking for rarities, about 10% of their 550 species proved to be new. They were stung by urchins, morays, anemones, stingrays and stinging worms. Their hands, cut by barnacles, became first a welter of sores and then horny-callused. They caught...