Word: ratted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...collector of stamps. Had he now become a flea collector? He is fond of dogs. Was he shielding his dogs from vermin? No, Dr. Dyer would chuckle, and his friends seldom realized that he had ceased his joshing when he said, "They're fleas from a wild rat and I'm trying to see if they'll kill me." He was experimenting with flea transmission of typhus fever...
...Institute to become professor of public health and hygiene at the University of Virginia. Dr. Maxcy knew that U. S. inhabitants are seldom lousy, suspected that some other blood-sucking insect might be the vector of mild U. S. typhus. Dr. Dyer, who in his career had dealt with rat-borne bubonic plague, suspected rat fleas, proved his hypothesis correct-first on guinea pigs, next (by accident) on two assistants, Martin Joseph Mannix and Dr. Elmer Theodore Ceder, lastly upon himself. "Where," he demanded as he wobbled home from the Naval Hospital, "Where do they get that 'mild...
...hate rats," hisses James Lorenz Nicholes, with a sinister smile upon his small, ratlike features. "I would rather kill a rat than an elephant-any day." Had they been wise, 8,000,000 rats would have fled Chicago last month, for James Lorenz Nicholes was there...
...wise rat that knows its own fodder. Chicago's rats were scurrying out of their retreats by the thousands last week, slinking away to shudder and die in gutters and alleys. James Lorenz Nicholes, famed ratkiller, well knows the limitations of a rat's wisdom. A rat can distinguish between two kinds of food, may prefer one to the other or shun both. Put three kinds of victuals before a rat and it will confusedly gobble all. Applying this principle, Ratkiller Nicholes was busily ridding Chicago-temporarily, at least-of several million of its rats. Last week...
Three weeks ago Ratkiller Nicholes was called to Chicago by some companies in the rat-infested stockyards and by the Walgreen drug stores and Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. He arrived in the automobile in which he pursues rats throughout the U. S., bringing with him two large suitcases and his young wife. Ratkiller Nicholes went to work. Wherever rats were plentiful he distributed pieces of bread, hamburger steak and apples, in each piece of food a drop of his chemical (barium carbonate with a slight touch of barium sulphide). Because the Nicholes poison is comparatively slow acting the rats...