Word: ratted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...issue, you publish a letter from Mr. Arthur Tuckerman, of Gstaad, Switzerland, about a master-ratsman dog Bippo, referring to Standard Oil's cat Minnie (TIME, April 12). As the subject appears to possess so much public interest, may I not contribute the following additional information re animal rat-slayers on corporate payrolls...
While hotspots from coast-to-coast observed moments of silence in her memory, while Broadway pitchmen hawked little copper medals stamped with her image and a Hollywood boy was gnawed by a 15½-in. rat which crept up his pants during a memorial revival of one of her pictures, the late Jean Harlow went to her last rest last week in a manner which has come to be regarded by the film colony as quiet, conventional good taste. With a reliable force of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer company detectives on guard to see that there was no repetition...
...Pictures are too ephemeral in time and material to create an art. The test of an art is endurance. . . . The films have as much chance against the Theatre as a celluloid cat chasing an asbestos rat through Hell...
...very big business, not even business. It is a gamble for all concerned and even the producer does not stand to make money in very large quantities. Gilbert Miller is delighted when Tovarich grosses $15,000 a week. George Abbott is lucky to get $12,000 out of Brother Rat. The only real money in show business comes occasionally from Hollywood, when a Goldwyn offers $160,000 for a Dodsworth or Columbia gets You Can't Take It With...
...years ago every other ship which docked in New York Harbor carried rats. Now only one out of twelve ships entering all U. S. harbors carries rats. Because rats harbor fleas which transmit dreadful bubonic plague to human beings. Surgeon General Thomas Parran Jr., upon noting the success of rat elimination aboard ships, last week happily announced that the danger of plague ever again reaching the U. S. from abroad is "almost eliminated...