Word: octopus
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...Dear Octopus (by Dodie Smith; produced by John C. Wilson). In real life the English surround their country houses with high hedges, for privacy. But in the theatre, English country houses are always ostentatiously on display. Dear Octopus provides the latest sentimental exhibit, peopling the manorial hall with one of those varied but unvarying families who know what Britannia-and the more genteel theatre public-expect of them. Every item in the ritual is carefully observed...
...Golden Wedding, which brings the dispersed clan together. 2) The halting but hearty toast to that "dear octopus," the Family. 3) The nursery, full of memories, and the old teddy bear, now minus an arm. 4) The old nanny, who has been with the family 47 years. 5) The plump married daughter. 6) The slim single daughter. 7) The angular eccentric daughter. 8) The red-faced son-in-law, all teeth, plus fours and fatuousness. 9) The attractive unmarried son. 10) The mousy but pretty companion, in love with...
...meant at the very least that Czechoslovakia was subjected to a full day of increased "pressure" and agonizing uncertainty. It caused John Bull to cut momentarily the figure of a man who starts to saw off the leg of a friend when he sees the ankle grabbed by an octopus, as Cartoonist Jerry Doyle of the New York Post observed (see cut). Editor Dawson, three days after his "sawing" editorial, made amends. He praised the speech of Czechoslovak President Benes (see p. 19) as "a model of what a public utterance should be," denounced No. 2 Nazi Göring...
...round-faced, dapper Charles Oilman Norris quit his job as a magazine editor and wrote a novel. He was galled because his chief claim to fame was that he was the husband of Kathleen Norris and the younger brother of the late, famed Frank Norris (McTeague, The Octopus...
...goggle fisherman, wearing watertight glasses, a bathing suit and earplugs, dives down into an underwater paradise which is, as Author Gilpatric describes it, half marine science laboratory, half Freudian dream. There, armed with a spear, he harpoons a mullet, merou, moray, ray, octopus, none of which is so suspicious of man underwater as of man out. Besides being better exercise than most fishing, goggle fishing has one further sporting advantage: It exposes the fisherman to some risk of being the victim as well as victor in the game. On one occasion, when a large octopus wrapped itself around Fisherman Gilpatric...