Word: rat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...finger bowl; with each drink he requires a fresh chaser, because "I never like to bathe in the same water twice." He is allergic to the mere presence of children. When he spies an urchin in his bank, brandishing a toy pistol, Fields pounces like a terrier on a rat, has to be pulled off by the child's mother. He follows his steady nose through the most sidesplitting chase sequences since the days of the Keystone cops. He is surrounded but not obscured by such accomplices as Franklin Pangborn, Shemp Howard and Jessie Ralph, bearing such names...
...were kept on at the schools as instructors. Courses were so compressed that instructors had little leeway to make up flying time lost because of bad weather, to nurse along slower students. Essential ground-school instruction had to be abbreviated. Veteran fliers blanched when they saw the hourly, crowded "rat race" at Randolph -the close-packed stream of trainers, gliding in to land and take on fresh cadets and instructors...
Following the precedent of "Brother Rat" authors Monks and Finklehoffe have located the story in a college and have filled it with glamor-boys and pretty co-eds. This time it is dear old Bailey U. that takes the alma mater honors and the life is quite a revelation. Armed with forged Groton diplomas and a beer-hall background, Maxie and stooge Sid Silvers crash Bailey to run an underground bookie racket and take the students for an expensive ride on the ponies. From there on it is a mad chase from physiology classroom to basketball floor to the girl...
Crude slapstick has taken over stage and screen at the Keith Boston. "Spook House," better half of a double feature, is a four relier in which bedroomless newlyweds and aroller skating penguin run Dead Pan Buster Keaton a grotesque rat race. All the old Mack Sonnet gags are used--only the lack of a custard pic tossing scene indicates that the show wasn't filmed twenty years ago. On the stage, Hollywood's Three Stooges appear and disappear in person...
...stewardess on an airliner he used to pilot in the U. S. "We made a trip once," he explains, "and there weren't any passengers aboard. That's how I lost my commercial license." Before he leaves the prison camp, Milland tells the commanding officer about a rat in his cell-"a very intelligent rat, so I named him Adolf and taught him how to give the Nazi salute...