Word: rat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Readers of "The Wisdom Box," George C. MacKinnon's colyum in the Boston Daily Record, learned last month of a strange & wonderful white rat, owned and disowned by Philip Baldwin of Medford, Mass., radio control man for National Broadcasting Co.'s Station WEEI. Radioman Baldwin, reported Colyumist MacKinnon, bought two white rats, one of which soon disappeared from its box in the Baldwin garage. It had been missing ten days when Mr. Baldwin suddenly beheld it perched impudently on a brake drum of his automobile. He grabbed, missed. The rat darted out of sight into the car's internals...
...Baldwin took his car to a greasing station, requested rat-removal. Greasers searched vainly for 45 min., gave up. Mr. Baldwin went to an auto-laundry, had his car thoroughly soaked. The rat stayed inside...
...drove the car with the white rat somewhere inside. Sometimes it would come out in the tonneau, frisking over the seats. Once it appeared on the hood, dashed across the windshield. Finally, one day, Mr. Baldwin drove over a bumpy road. Out fell the rat. Mr. Baldwin sped away, last saw the rat running after...
...slick manipulation Benson was acquitted. Benson might have gone unpunished to his grave had not the Furies taken a hand in hounding him. Human avengers came to his hideout too late, but had the workman-like satisfaction of chucking what was left of him into the Five Points rat-pit. Author Komroff's tale of 100-year-old Manhattan is no lavender-scented memorial, but a crude, almost reportorial narrative which lets the background take care of itself. A New York Tempest is a tale not of Manhattan's 400 (so designated circa...
...favorite pastime of the employes at this pear station was to use the rat-kangaroo as a target while it sat motionless in the glare of a carbide light. It was not uncommon to kill several in an evening. The wallaby also suffers from this type of sport. A score in one evening was considered a goodly kill...