Word: rat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...goes before, their pathos in the war and the Nazi invasion is less pathetic than grotesque, less like the end of Man's Fate than the end of A Frog He Would A-Wooing Go. When the cat and her kittens come tumbling in and pounce on the rat, the mouse and the little frog-gie, it is still just gamins and spinach. For Author Paul is guilty of one of the oldest of demagogic fallacies: he confuses democracy with its lowest common denominators...
...navies of the United Nations, convoying, fighting subs, mixing in swirling battles with the Jap in the Indian Ocean, watching a hundred naval rat holes from Trondheim to Surabaya, this concentration of the German surface fleet had a sinister look...
...story itself is the successful fight of shipowners to break up a gang of salvage pirates among the Florida keys. Paulette Goddard is there, speakin' Southern and doin' her best to get a little honest salvage away from Raymond Massey, head of the highjackers and a rat, old-style. Romancing the pretty salvage wrecker around are Sea Captain John Wayne, who seems quite depressed, and Shipowner Ray Milland, who is anything but. He gets her. In the end, poor Paulette, surrounded by dead and dying salvagers, wails: "This is all my doin...
...tactful "elsewhere" might well have meant the U.S., where there are no Japanese troops to be infected. But it was pointed out that the U.S. had little cause for alarm. Modern inoculations against bubonic plague cut down its mortality rate; scientific rat hunts and sanitary measures can prevent its spread...
Research. In Manhattan, two psychologists reported that when they presented a rat with a difficult problem he bit his nails...