Word: octopus
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...Animals adopt the structural formation of the surroundings in which they live for several generations. For instance: the octopus adopts the same texture and form as the sea bottom, the grasshopper assumes the characteristics of a blade of grass...
Thus with Verne and other aids people are beginning to have a contempt for the stories of mysterious denizens of the deep. Sea-serpents will be found crouching among the water lilies of every garden pool, and the next problem in upholstering will be how to transform the octopus into the parlor couch...
Ruddy, jolly, plump, energetic, roguish, confidential?these are some of the adjectives with which Wells sketches Sanderson's surface character and mannerisms. Exceptionally bold, creative, emancipated, with a "mind like at octopus," perpetually growing, leaving others behind, a "rock-climber";? these are the outlines of the mental picture...
...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...