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...give his Communist and Socialist supporters something to tell the proletarians back home, Premier Blum issued a Cabinet decree "nationalizing" the Schneider-Creusot works, biggest French armorers, and commonly called by irate Red & Pink orators such names as "The Blood-Sucking Armament Octopus." There was no reason to suppose that Ramsay Delano MacBlum was not perfectly sincere in issuing this decree, but it does not go into effect on any particular date. Eventual action is made to turn on the advice of the French General Staff, which is about as keen to turn Schneider-Creusot over to political Reds & Pinks...
...university life, we passed the most hair-raising quarter hour we've yet known. For innocently accepting an invitation to witness a short operation on a cat, we had no sooner crossed the threshold of the formaldehyde-filled room when the coils of drama closed round us like an octopus and didn't let go till we left in a state of exhaustion, bloody and quite bowed...
...underworld voice, are the leading players in a series of adventures on a Pacific island. A mysterious though good-looking stranger is shipwrecked into a group of pearl divers and fugitives from justice and, or civilization. Among the other thrills are an underwater fight with an octopus, a pearl robbery, a shooting, and an unveiling of a G-man. Humphrey Bogart is convincingly hardboiled and confident as he drives the natives to work in the dangerous oyster beds and strides surely through perils both criminal and amorous. Based on Somerset Maughm's "Three in Eden", the movie is a good...
...composed by an author-traveler named Frank Cowan of Greensburg, Pa., published in Vol. III, No. 1, of Ward's Natural Science Bulletin, dated Jan. 1, 1884. The same issue contained a sketch of a brontosaurus, a facetiously polysyllabic and mildly risque poem about a mermaid and an octopus, articles on the musk ox and the flying fox of Australia; also included was a business-like list of catalogs for the sale of such natural history specimens as human skeletons. North American bird eggs, glass models of invertebrates. This periodical, published by Ward's Natural Science Establishment...
...Republican Party as unwavering as the lines of his workmanlike cartoons. Once he pictured "Government in Business" as a banyan tree whose roots curled out to strangle honest enterprise. He liked the idea, improved on it in a second cartoon by turning the banyan tree into an octopus named "New Deal...