Word: rat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Roaring, grunting, shouting, squeaking, last week Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Combined Shows opened its 1930 season in New York's Bronx Coliseum. Like the perennial sea serpent story and the yarn of the rat that nibbled the baby, Manhattan pressmen took their cue, played up Circus because Circus is always news...
...Baltimore, Md., George Hammonds chased a rat down a hole, poked at the rat. found $100 in gold pieces under its nest...
...hunt usually lasts for a fortnight, may continue, for a month. At the end of the stated period the two teams foregather, producing evidence of their success. Judges are selected and the records told off. Each hunter brings in the tails of rats and mice he has slaughtered; the entire carcass of other varmints is required as evidence under the unwritten laws of this sport. Teams may combine efforts in ridding a certain property of rats. Guns, clubs and traps are variously used in their destruction. The rats will be brought from cover in an organized drive and as many...
...latest rat hunt in this county held at Spraggs closed but a few days ago; one team was captained by Morris Strawn and the other by D. L. Hoy. The Strawn team dispatched 1,573 rats, 930 mice. 427 sparrows, 26 starlings, 30 weasels and 4 hawks. Hoy and his henchmen made away with 980 rats, 952 mice, 405 sparrows, 21 weasels, 6 starlings and 4 hawks...
When final scores are told off at the end of the hunting period the corpses of birds and the tails of rats and mice are heaped into a pyre, gasoline is thrown over the whole and the hunters dance a war dance about their kill as flames cremate the varmint carcasses. One enthusiastic rat hunter tells of a perfect day during which his party made away with 160 rats...