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...Octopus. There were two detectives, Mr. Dempsey and Mr. Kelly. They could not refuse a wisp of a girl who asked them to investigate a certain Long Island lighthouse wherein people were frequently murdered. On discovering a painter in the lighthouse, Mr. Dempsey tells Mr. Kelly to find the painter's pallet. Whereupon Mr. Kelly tells the painter to open his mouth, but it is Mr. Dempsey who announces that all painters have weasels. Then lights blink, doors swing, screams are screamed-and people appear, one by one, a shaggy seadog with a hook for a hand, a chirping...
There was some doubt whether the authors (Gallaher & Welch) of Sh! The Octopus were trying to be funny or spooky. But they were both. And the audience went shhh-before every act. Clifford Dempsey and Harry Kelly, playing under their own names, were simply splitting...
...Book.* The red brick schoolhouse, copy books, McGuffey's readers; Rockefeller's millions and Roosevelt's teeth; Langley and the Wright Brothers building flimsy miracles; Hill and Harriman fighting for a railroad; automobiles and oil wells and Andrew Carnegie, "The Octopus," The Jungle and dirty canned meat; "The Curfew Shall Not Ring Tonight," "Old Dan Tucker," "Buffalo Gals" and "The Man with the Hoe." These are a few of the elements of history in the first years of the century; they are a few of the elements in Volume II of Mark Sullivan's Our Times...
...whether or not chiropody is charming, Gaspar Barboas was surely its most potent exponent. He rose from it to such might that he earned the curse of the entire Bhingi race in Australia and became the object, in his electrically guarded mansion, of their attacks by totem pole, octopus and many another insidious device. His tragedy was that Safra Ferguson, the Bhingi maiden cultivated to perfection by an eccentric U. S. dowager, could not love him, though she frequently saved his life. From the bold wind that he sowed against the Bhingis and their Catholic teachers, Barboas reaped a whirlwind...
...effects of a conference whose grasp has the octopus-like extension of the Big Ten can have only a retarding action on the present movement in the larger eastern colleges, as typified by President Hopkins' proposal to the Dartmouth association and by the strong undergraduate feeling against commercialization of the game. Conference upholders will deny this vehemently, but , both benefits and evils alike, even they must admit that the Daily errs in its supposition that selection of an outside man to govern the refereeing in this one game is in any way an indication of a conference spirit. The plan...