Word: octopus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Menlo Park, Calif, last week Leon F. Douglass, inventor, proudly told the Press a shocker. He had wanted someone for an acting job. The job was to play opposite a 12-ft. octopus in an underwater "death" struggle which he wanted to film with his "inverted periscope" cinecamera. Inventor Douglass' pretty daughter Florence, 17, volunteered. First time she dove into the tank the octopus was unimpressed. Next time the monster, as desired, slithered its eight long tentacles around her body, glued them tight with each one's double row of suckers. Father Douglass filmed breathlessly, finished his reel...
...Lori Bara's little story) to be bitten to death by a shark. After his funeral, Ahmang avenges this mishap by killing the shark with a knife. Samarang is a silent picture, with musical accompaniment. It is pleasing scenically and photographically. In the inevitable fight-between an octopus and a shark-the shark wins. The stagiest shot is the one that was really most dangerous to make-a python coiling around a native who had been directed to yelp when the coil grew uncomfortably tight. Instead of yelping, the native fainted, had to be rescued by four...
...more to this sex-life than just swimming over each other's eggs." She put a badge on her right shoulder saying "I will share," paid a visit to Fanny Bored, the world's oldest mermaid, finally had an uncomfortable liaison on a barnacle bed, with an octopus...
...cast, soon shows his stripe by trying to get all the gold for himself. He is dragged beneath the waves to his death for his pains. Love for the oceanographer comes to the diver when he goes to rescue her, trapped in a bathetic bathysphere by a giant octopus. Some of the submarine photography is excellent...
Still a stranger to many otherwise well posted citizens of the world is the new Benito Mussolini, the Duce who has taken to digesting balance sheets, mastering trade statistics, engineering huge combinations of Italian industry and grappling intelligently with the octopus of hard times. Last week, without turning to foreign bankers, Il Duce floated a new $50,000,000 loan entirely in Italy, kept the lira still at par, surveyed the foreign bond market on which Italian issues remained strong and perhaps congratulated himself...