Word: rat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Said Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, in a radio broadcast, of her troubles in keeping the White House: "Pipes will leak at frequent intervals and rats and mice like old buildings, regardless of tradition. Two friends of mine, sitting on the South Porch at breakfast one summer morning, tried to reassure themselves that a squirrel ran across the floor and refused to admit until they were safely upstairs that they had seen a large rat...
Author Strachey, branded a "foreign rat" by the Hearst Press, was delivering the 64th lecture of his current U. S. tour when Federal agents and local constabulary appeared at the North Shore Congregation Israel Synagog in Glencoe, Ill. Respectfully they waited until he finished, then served a deportation warrant. It charged that Author Strachey entered the U. S. "by means of false and misleading statements," had since declared himself a Communist. Chirped delighted Author Strachey, who planned to leave for England in two weeks anyway: "A dramatic nourish to the end of my lecture tour...
...while Mr. Hoeing was walking by Stoughton and Hollis that he smelled a rat and began to stalk his prey just as his illustrious ancestors in colonial days. Only a few half-awake Freshmen raised their heads to watch their doughty proctor encounter the animal with his stick...
...certain biological features made the latter accomplishment more deadly to its perpetrators and spectators, the Colonel had to resort to two fearsome six-shooters before the partially defenceless animal dropped dead at sunset. Mr. Hoeing, on the other hand, might have been a caveman, for he encountered the late rat in truly primeval fashion...
...human problems. Her characters are mostly riff-raff but gloriously magnified and particularized into heroic proportions: Michael, the burnt-out veteran of 32; Baruch, the philosopher of the one-horse printshop; Catherine, the virgin in search of an angel; Chamberlain, the cheerfully hopeless incompetent businessman; Tom Withers, the intelligently rat-minded foreman. Only ordinary character in the book is Joseph, whose very ordinariness lights up the grotesque genius of his companions, casts a reflected light on himself. Says he to himself, out of his bewilderment: "Here all these months have gone past and they are still talking a lingo that...