Word: rat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Behind Samuel Insull lay 23 idle days of voyaging on the blue waters of the Mediterranean and the Atlantic. Behind that voyage lay nearly two years of lonely exile when he was hunted like a rat in a hole. Behind that exile lay three years of fear ful struggle to preserve a utilities empire in which thousands and thousands of people had sunk their life savings. Behind that struggle lay nearly 50 years of hard work during which, at first acre by acre and later province by province, Samuel Insull had built that empire. On the Water...
...investigated and found a series of mysterious facts but no direct evidence of crime. Sarret. Schmidt & Cie. were in the habit of renting various small villas as "nursing homes." Under a boulder in the garden of Sarret's house in Marseilles, detectives found a great mass of bones-rat bones, cat bones, assorted dog bones up to the skeleton of a St. Bernard, all more or less decomposed by acid. Soon thereafter Georges Sarret rented M. Poncel's villa L'Hermitage and got into difficulties with another of his underlings, an unfrocked priest named Louis Chambon...
Your short, concise and sharp descriptions always seem to fit the individual, but in this particular case neither I nor any of the friends that I have shown this picture to can find any resemblance to a "fat-cheeked rat...
...quote from your issue of March 19: "Nervous, twitchetty, bespectacled, he has a big nose, prominent mouth, receding chin, looks like a fat-cheeked rat...
...Author Lion Feuchtwanger looks like a fat-cheeked rat. Maybe he does. But surely, of all the numerous species in that large order of mammals, the rodents, you could have selected an animal that would have fitted in with a precise description of Feuchtwanger's singularly rodent-like physiognomy - and yet would have carried with it not quite so nasty a connotation. Perhaps a fat-cheeked squirrel or beaver might have done just as well...