Word: ratted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fighting Mr. Ickes for a share of Public Works. . . . Those hundreds of millions-which must be spent some day-all were set aside for Mr. Ickes not to spend, or went to Mr. Hopkins for raking leaves and boondoggling. Hundreds of millions more are being poured down the same rat-holes-while the equipment of our Army remains obsolete and insufficient...
...under a Louisiana State law, drafted by Huey Long just before his death, making all RFC transactions with State banks a matter of public record. Confronted with positive evidence, RFC admitted the New Orleans deal, hastily announced sale of the newspaper bonds to Banker Davis. Quick to smell a rat was Delaware's Senator Daniel O. Hastings, who demanded a sweeping investigation of Paul Davis, his bank and RFC's interest in it. Said...
...falls in love with a mealy-mouthed young prospector. is a painfully uninspired bit of hackwork. That the picture, nonetheless, manages to be an intermittently lively and entertaining period piece is due partly to Howard Hawks's skillful direction, partly to a fine characterization of a frowsy wharf-rat by Producer Goldwyn's latest discovery. Walter Brennan. Good shot: Edward G. Robinson incredulously examining the corpse of his henchman (Brian Dunlevy), hanged by the Vigilantes...
...British Labor, Lord Ponsonby, the Labor Party's leader in the House of Lords, resigned last week. Its leader in the Commons, "Old George" Lansbury, again threatened to resign. The Young Labor rival Herbert Morrison, who is most anxious to succeed him, announced that he smelt a Geneva rat...
Marjorie Bowen recounts ''with scrupulous exactitude" Sophie Dawes's strange and fascinating story in a volume that for originality and vigor makes most contemporary biographies look frail. No hero worshipper. Author Bowen calls Sophie a vulgar wanton, a young slut, compares her with a gutter rat, declares that "her worthlessness and the squalor of her tale is duly recognized by the author." Nevertheless she manages to draw a convincing flesh & blood portrait of her subject. Although The Scandal of Sophie Dawes, for all its impressive documentation, emphatically does not solve the great mystery of Sophie...