Word: ratted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cheeked Rat...
Under Books in your March 19 issue of TIME, you show a photograph of Lion Feuchtwanger, and I failed to see any resemblance to a "fat-cheeked rat," although I do not propose to vie with any member of TIME'S staff to detect a resemblance of a horseface, frog-face, pig-face, or fat-cheeked-rat"-face in man. If you really meant by this statement that his character was ratlike, why not be honest about...
...suppose that President Roosevelt, not that I make any comparison, looked like Mr. Feuchtwanger, would you describe him as looking like a "fat-cheeked rat," or if your editor . . . looked like Mr. Feuchtwanger, would you "describe him as looking like a "fat-cheeked rodent...
...spring promising a Government guarantee for the C. P. R. loan. On the basis of this letter the bank loan was negotiated. Not until six months later did the Prime Minister find time to draft the necessary Order-in-Council. In this delay the Opposition thought it smelled a rat. Furthermore, the The committee room was jammed and overflowing when Prime Minister Bennett took the witness stand last week. In its nearby chamber the Commons could scarcely scrape a quorum. Quickly the Prime Minister assured the committee that he owned no C. P. R. securities, that there was nothing sinister...
Meantime Emory Evans Smith, head of the chemical firm which had analyzed the Pepper sample, was having other emotions. Last week he had to crush the hopes of 35 eager-eyed people who brought him soap, potatoes, sponges, sewage, a dead rat. Nor was he optimistic about the ones who had found what seemed to be ambergris. First, he warned, he had tested only a sample. It was by no means sure that all the stuff was ambergris. Even if it were, there might be no ready market for so much of it. Used to "fix" the odors of other...