Word: rat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Patch of New Plaster. Under Sylvie's management, the hotel prospered. Seven months pregnant though she was, the new proprietress worked hard at her job. Her clothes were sometimes smeared with plaster, and she would explain: "I'm plugging up some of those rat holes in the cellar." An anonymous letter brought Police Inspectors Leloup and Lelong to the hotel. "Ah," said Sylvie, "I have good news for you. Madame is returning on Saturday." The policemen nodded: "We will be here...
...Duke of Wellington, when he was very old and incredibly distinguished, was telling how once, at mess in the Peninsula, his servant had opened a bottle of port, and inside found a rat...
...said the subaltern, abashed, "then no doubt it was a very small rat...
...damned large rat," said the Duke. And there the matter has rested ever since. -Gilbert Murray, Stoic, Christian and Humanist D. E. STANTON Memphis, Tcnn...
...Call of the Blood, when it was shown in 1920, puffed Ivor into a fullblown matinee craze, and The Rat, a melodrama which Ivor wrote, produced and starred in, made him a leading figure on the stage as well. Glamorous Night, the first Novello musical (in which he also starred), was a huge hit. The Dancing Years, his fourth musical, ran for ten years. Ivor composed seven musicals before he was through, all beautifully decorated and loaded with the brisk tunes and languid ballads that Britons had learned to expect...