Word: rat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...considered a rarity. Last September I had occasion to avail myself of the privilege of making my headquarters at the Prickly Pear Field Station at Cogango, Queensland. There I was informed that the potoroo was considered a pest, since it was reputed to have a fondness for potato tubers. Rat-kangaroos were nightly visitors to the Station grounds. By ground thumping they betrayed their presence. I saw one at its thumping leap upward four or five feet...
...louse carries a violent, epidemic form of the disease common in Europe. In the U. S. typhus is milder and endemic, travels in the rat flea...
...kangaroo-rat, which is no marsupial, but a jumping rodent...
...morally, but broiling for it. Last shot: Robinson's wide writhing mouth pleading up at the judge for two minutes, "You're killing me at the wrong time. You should have killed me when I was taking his money. It ain't fair to let a rat live and kill a man. It ain't fair...
...they went to the Kreuger penthouse at No. 791 Park Avenue. Asked for his explanation Herr Kreuger again muttered something about "an error in translation." grew white, slumped into a chair. Bankers Murnane and Durant politely did not press the issue, called a doctor, withdrew. If they smelled a rat they did not follow their noses...