Word: ratted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...build your sewers in Omaha? Why curse me and torture me with your machines and your sewers? I say to you, this damned rat-a-tat-tat, day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year, must stop! And I am going to stop...
...rat-faced little clubfoot who bosses the German press, Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, once remarked that two newspapers are enough for Germany-Adolf Hitler's Volkischer Beobachter (National Observer) and Dr. Goebbels' Angriff (Attack). In such matters Dr. Goebbels is a man of his word. Since January 1933, more than 1,000 non-Nazi German newspapers have been closed or failed under Nazi pressure. At present German newspapers that cannot make a profit competing with the subsidized, official party organs must all close up and release their workers for "more useful duties," i. e., soldiering, digging forts, making...
Today, and for 18 years past, the subway has been a rat hole into which Cincinnati's tax money has been poured at the rate of more than $1,000 a day in bond interest. By the time its bonds finally fall due, in 1967, the Cincinnati subway will have cost $19,000,000. It has never carried a passenger. Once during a bitter Depression winter, a score of shivering hoboes holed up in one of its diggings, until they were driven out by the police. But no tracks were ever laid in its 2.6 miles of underground...
Fortunately, no students were in the three-story wooden "rat-house" at the time, although normally 17 socially prominent upperclassmen and a graduate student proctor occupy it. Most of the students, it was said, were out of town on just another weekend...
Married. Wayne Morris (real name: Bert De Wayne Morris Jr.), 24, cinemactor (Kid Galahad, Valley of the Giants, Brother Rat); and Leonore ("Bubbles") Schinasi, 18. step-daughter of a late millionaire Manhattan tobacco importer; in Beverly Hills, Calif...