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Word: ratted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Brussels two gendarmes lolled last week near a corner of the famed Avenue de Louise, perhaps the most impeccable residential street in Europe. From the leafy Bois de la Cambre a motorcycle sped into the quiet Avenue, its exhaust rat-tatting raucously. The gendarmes' whistles screamed. . . . "Your papers, Monsieur, your license? It is not permitted to circulate upon the Avenue de Louise at such a speed. C'est interdit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BELGIUM: C'est Interditr | 8/16/1926 | See Source »

...statue seems to express sorrow over the internal, unseen uglinesses of human society . . . the ugly crazy twist in the mind of McKinley's assassin, Leon Czolgosz . . . the ugly, crazy twists in the minds of gunmen from many a Midland city, for whom Canton has long been a safe rat-nest between shootings . . . the stunted, poisoned twists in the minds of Canton politicians who sell these gunmen protection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Corruption | 7/26/1926 | See Source »

...where else has it been recorded that, when a rat creeps into a bird's nest, their monstrous issue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Romany Summer | 7/19/1926 | See Source »

...adolescent that has really done extraordinarily well to produce a Dewey so soon. The country might well take unto itself another compliment for having produced a Will Durant. The Significance of his book is its extraordinary humanization of lives and literature which, for most people, lie moldering in the rat-runs of deserted lecture halls. Its 575 pages are more simple, vivid and downright readable than the average run of best-seller fiction, not excepting the direct quotations from philosophic works, which are invariably well chosen to promote clarity and to demonstrate flavors. As a textbook for classrooms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: That Dear Delight | 7/12/1926 | See Source »

...Washington, Mrs. Ansell, wife of Brigadier General S. T. Ansell, U. S. Army (retired), received the news calmly, cheerfully. Said she: "Feeding that boy has always been like putting cheese down a rat-hole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Rat-Hole | 4/5/1926 | See Source »

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