Word: rat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Butts experimented with a galvanometer and an electric circuit on nearly 200 pairs of rats, one cancerous, the other healthy. The cancer tissue acted exactly like the positive pole, and the normal rat, the negative, in an ordinary dry-cell circuit He proved that cancerous tissue has an excess of positive charge which may be neutralized by the application of an equal negative charge. This explains why X-ray and radium treatment, in which the alpha or positive rays are screened off by a lead shield, while the beta and gamma rays (negative) are allowed to reach the diseased tissue...
Arthur Brisbane, Hearst editor: " It is not a dull world as you escape from your little corner and look around hurriedly. A colony of women in one part of London have solved their living problem by becoming professional rat catchers, in spite of a woman's ancient horror of rats, dating from days when the cave woman came home to find that cave rats had eaten her baby. They catch the rats alive, 25,000 of them a month, and sell them to doctors and others for vivisection for eight cents each...
...everyone has treated the creatures with so little consideration. Even the Pied Piper of Hamlin took the trouble to produce a tune which would appeal to rats. In France and Switzerland animals were granted due process of law and one famous lawyer is know to have defended rats in court at Autun. The interest of some men takes the form a animal study. An English enthusiast reports the appearance of a plague of blind moles, a reaction, he thinks, of the war and the disappearance of the Hanoverian rat, and unwelcome attache to the House of Hanover...
...robbed," asserted Battling Siki, interviewed in the Rat Mort, a Paris cafe. The Sengalese fighter referred to the decision which relieved him of his crown of light-heavyweight champion of the world after his St. Patrick's Day fight with Mike Mc-Tigue in Dublin. As the evening wore on Siki's spirits rose. He knocked out a diner who laughed at him. The next morning the conquered convive had him haled to court for assault and battery...
...series of disillusionments, in chance meetings with street- walkers, bums, financiers. At one point he tries a bottle of rat poison, but finds in it not oblivion but a stomach ache. The girl is more successful in her choice of poisons, and dies on his hands-finding some satisfaction in the reflection that she dies clean. He is unfortunately jailed; and is visited by his father, who tries unsuccessfully to bring him back to Iowa. The play ends up with an astounding nightmare, in the course of which all the minor characters dance about him, tempting or mocking...