Word: rat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Then the sharp metallic rat-tat-tat-tat of machine guns sounded high above the din of battle as the Isabel replied in deadly fashion to the fire from both banks. Eventually, the Chinese, defeated, ceased fire, and the Isabel passed proudly on downstream. One sailor received two slight flesh wounds...
...will feed the cats on the rats, and in turn will feed the rats on the stripped carcasses of the cats, thus giving each rat one-fourth...
...will feed the cats on rats and will start a rat ranch adjoining the cat ranch. The rats will multiply four times as fast as the cats, and if we start with 100,000 rats we will have four rats a day for each cat, which is plenty...
Through a lifetime of Russian metamorphoses Baron Wrangel passes to the day when twelve "comrades" were apprehended torturing a lady of the aristocracy by tying against her person an iron pot containing a live, gnawing rat. Seldom has the complete inversion of Russia's civilization been more vividly sketched than by the Baron, who remained in Russia until 1920. Of all Russians he appears to despise most Alexander Kerensky (né Kirbitz), calls him the "Grand Eunuch of the Revolution . . . puppet [of the Soviet leaders] . . . seemed more like a . . . girl . . . selling herself to the first person she meets...
...Triumph of the Rat. U. S. cinema producers-content for nine-tenths of the year with dispensing sentimental froth and such subtitles as: "Morning came, but the heart of the beautiful lady was dark with despair"-may well take another look at Europe, the land of Variety, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The Rat and its sequel, The Triumph of the Rat. This last named film (an English production) is "shot" from shrewd angles; contains Paris den and ballroom scenes; has a lean, dark hero (Ivor Novello) who can make love like a gentleman and gnaw a bone dramatically...