Word: octopus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...asked a girl to go riding.' ? Wisconsin Octopus...
...Love Piker. We don't know quite which is more tiresome? watching one of the 57 Hollywood varieties of "daughters'' go straight to the Nether Octopus of Shame, via the bathing-revel and flask-party route or seeing one of them won away from rouge, the Ritz and high-hattiness in general by kittens, tame canaries, rural atmosphere and the sight of a pair of baby-rompers. But The Love Piker temporarily swings the weight of ennui in the latter direction. Hope Warner (Anita Stewart) was a frightful snob. She broke the speed laws, owned a Pekinese, and when rescued...
...Hotel Plaza. Bungalows have been built on Manhattan office buildings for several years-this is the first house-in-midair. An unnamed " sea monster" was captured off the coast of Florida. It was "40 feet long, 23 feet in circumference, weighed 15 tons." Its stomach contained a "400-pound octopus, 1,500 pounds of blackfish, 500 of rock coral...
There is a certain amount of loose and inaccurate talking in America to the effect that the League of Nations,--far from being the dream that some others call it,--is a super-state,--a sont of international octopus busily engaged with its many writhing tentacles in sucking away the national independence of nations. Nothing could be farther from the fact, for the Council must agree unanimously on all important questions of policy, and thus a single national veto can prevent the League from pursuing a course of which that nation disapproves. The organs of the League constitute simply...
...vessel at sea, dealing destruction to the crew, critics crowed right and left that he was the most arrant Romanticist, and that the scene was too far-fetched to carry conviction. Another of his most famous passages met with the same scepticism--the under-water battle with an octopus. Yet within six months, both of these incidents have been performed on the stage of everyday life. Last fall the newspapers told of a small sail-boat, only six miles from the scene of Hugo's story, which was actually attacked by a gigantic octopus. One tentacle, grasping the mast, almost...