Word: ratted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Brown house rats grew desperate in the London Basin" district, last week, as heavy rains flooded their lairs with seepage and made sodden the nests of mother rats. Father rats shortly held a conclave, or, if they did not, the surprising event which proceeded to occur was all the less explicable. Simultaneously, the rats and ratlings poured up from their cellars by tens, scores & hundreds, to hurry, drab and sopping, out to the old Lea Valley Road toward high, unflooded Epping Forest. Pedestrians and cyclists on the road did not pause or hold their ground as the pattering squealing rats...
...inquiry proceeded which, if it found Harry F. Sinclair and his friends guilty of jury tampering, would add six years and $5,000, not to mention public condemnation for rat-in-the-corner tactics, to the list of penalties which Mr. Sinclair has for months & months been trying to evade...
...jail a Mrs. Anna Kessler rushed at cowering Mr. Koch. "You rat," she yelled, "you ought to be hanged! I'll kill you! Where is my ring? It cost $600! Tell me where it is, you villain!" Mr. Koch's plump cheeks puffed; his breath popped; he burst into tears. Police shouldered the angry matrons away and helped the rascal to a cell...
Than Secretary of the Treasury Mellon few persons are more dignified. Than rats and cockroaches few creatures are more undignified. Newsgatherers, who love nothing so well as the incongruous, had fun last week reporting how "rats and cockroaches in force are now picking on" Secretary Mellon. The genesis of these reports was that, with the razing of some old buildings across 15th Street from the Treasury Building in Washington (where the new Department of Commerce building is to rise), rodents and insects were noticed in unusual numbers near the treasury coal and trash vaults. Bug-catcher's were...
According to Howard Parker '07 Manager of the H. A. A., the courts WI be ready late next week if frost and rat do not delay the final surfacing...