Word: rat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...July pinwheel are quite as effective and wholly permissible. Similarly, the macabre, the delicately gruesome, of which Miss Lowell was so fond, is to be found quite as handily in a neurotic seafarer's terror of growing grass, or in a drawling village dracula, as in the rat-runs of a cathedral's Gothic spire. As always, there are stunning eccentricities. Having used "apotheosis" in one of her lines, Miss Lowell hastened to end the next with "bulldozed...
Like the brief exciting taps with which a conductor, baton against score-stand, commands attention for solemn music, certain items rat-tatted in the press last week as follows...
...with the lore of weird foods. Horse meat is paler than that of cattle, and sweet. Dog steaks are as tender as lamb chops, but taste flat. Frog legs are like the white part of chicken, would be appetizing save for the dead look of the bones. Rat flesh is like that of tame rabbits. Snails fried alive in butter have a quaint taste. They are tough to chew. Human flesh, when the source is not known, is tender and sweet. Toasted grasshoppers have a nutty flavor. Earth worms, washed clean and gently stewed, have a tangy tartness. Eels even...
...between Evolution as it is understood today and as it was debated in Oxford half a century ago by Darwin's champion, Thomas Henry Huxley, and empurpled Bishop Wilberforce. (The difference: Darwin saw discontinuity where modern zoologists and paleontologists read continuity, in the speciation of plants and animals.) Rat. Dr. William McDougall, onetime Oxonian, now Harvard's preeminent psychologist, demonstrated what an intelligent creature is the rat. Into a box with 14 latches the speaker put some cheese. Sniff, scratch, scrabble-plop, and in went a white rat, all the latches flapping open after him, to nibble contentedly...
...many latches on Dr. McDougall's rat-teaser...