Word: rat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meantime, Congress had received the 1941 Relief Bill from the Appropriations Committee. Submitted with the bill was a report. An investigation of WPA, said the report, had shown abuses, waste of funds, politics in the administering of relief. WPA funds had been used to exterminate rats in New Orleans at $2.97 a rat, to build golf courses for the wealthy, to improve a yacht basin for a yacht club, to construct a ski jump in New Hampshire, to pay the expenses of Deputy WPA Administrator Howard 0. Hunter to Kentucky Derbies, to provide free tea parties and banquets for Government...
...scheming wench, lifts her skirt two inches above her famous knees and by this most elementary of means turns his attention temporarily away from purely pecuniary sinning. Charley Grapewin, a crooked lawyer, spends all his time drinking a sickening mixture of scotch and milk until Lloyd Nolan, a rat of the second water in the inevitable role of a gangster, picturesquely stabs him to death with an icepick in a Turkish bath. A few double-crosses and prison breaks fail to thrill, except once when Tyrone almost gets killed. The most exciting scene in the movie, in fact...
...this 200, about half live at home. Fraternities and rat-Houses claim in the vicinity of from 60 to 65 each year, while approximately 30 inhabit the college dormitories and 25 to 30 are found at miscellaneous addresses...
Typhus and Typhoid. Carried by the louse and the rat-flea is Rickettsia prowazeki, a tiny organism which causes the dirty pink eruptions, burning fever and wild delirium of typhus fever. Prevention is simple: "no lice, no typhus." Also louse-borne is trench fever, a milder relative of typhus, which made its first appearance in World...
Last week the law's majesty cracked down-not on Rat Alley, but on the Post-Dispatch. Sharp, cantankerous Circuit Attorney Franklin Miller (whose prosecution of the case against Putty Nose was called by the Post-Dispatch "one more in his 11-year record of dismal flops") filed an information for contempt of court against the Post-Dispatch, its Editors Reese and Coghlan. its Cartoonist Fitzpatrick. Judge Rowe decided there was cause for action, ordered all three to appear in court this week...