Word: octopuses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Talking Machine Company; after a long illness; in San Francisco. Once said to have "done more to abolish peace and quiet than anyone else now living," Douglass gave Edison's phonograph a spring motor, brought its inventor his first cash reward. Once he had his daughter fight an octopus to publicize his underwater camera. Other Douglass inventions: a magnetic torpedo for World War I, the first pay telephone, a device for double reproduction of sound in radio...
Before Hitler's aerial Blitzkrieg became a reality, the English theatre was in the dumps. Last week, as Nazi bombers swarmed over London, theatrical tills rang loudly again. Going strong were revivals like the Devil's Disciple with Robert Donat, Dear Octopus with aging Marie Tempest. Viewed tepidly by critics, cheered loudly by audiences was Clare Boothe's anti-Nazi comedy Margin for Error, which opened a fortnight ago. Most popular of the musicals was Shepherd's Pie, which after ten months was still turning customers away. Included in the show is a pageant involving Elizabeth...
...Government is like a crippled octopus that cannot quite coordinate all its arms. Many of these arms last week were struggling with the vast problem of rearming the U. S. One, however, found time to buck the trend. The Department of Justice fired an anti-trust suit at a defense industry: Pullman, Inc., a holding company; subsidiary Pullman Co., owner and operator of virtually all U. S. sleeping cars; and subsidiary Pullman-Standard Car Manufacturing Co., No. 1 U. S. freight and sleeping car maker...
...great & good friend of its archenemy, democracy, that nobody listened. Among these unheeded Cassandras was Henry C. Wolfe, small, bespectacled foreign correspondent and lecturer, who had flitted around Russia and Central Europe, first for the Hoover Relief, then for the Columbus Dispatch. He had also written The German Octopus, prophesying that the Nazis would soon be doing what they were soon doing...
...Other items: Oscar the Obscene Octopus, a rubber monstrosity in Twenty Thousand Legs Under the Sea (formerly Salvador Dali's Dream of Venus}; bigger & better fireworks (free) which depict sinking submarines and battleships, other current news subjects; Battle of Emotions, a spectacle wherein dancing girls test their visual impact on male subjects, whose emotions are scored on electrical lie-detectors (25?); Dancing Campus (all the dancing to name bands that the customers want for 25? apiece); The Op'ry House (beer and mellowdrammer...