Word: ratted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...emphasis to indicate their location on his own person, and his eyes begin to sparkle. He smokes a great many de-nicotinized cigarets down to ragged little stubs. In his enthusiasm he lunches in his laboratory on sandwiches, coffee and condensed cream, perhaps with the bloody carcass of a rat in the sink at his elbow and surrounded by jars of pickled pigeon specimens. He used to play golf but has given it up, used to be a bachelor, but gave that up also almost at the age of 60, when he married...
...Brother Rat" and "Ferdinand the Bull" are currently fighting for honors at the University, with "Torchy Gets Her Man" a poor third. For those who have not seen "Brother Rat" on the stage, the screen version is top notch entertainment; for those who have, the movie is merely amusing. The lines are good, the plot, based on the complexities of life at the Virginia Military Institute is excellent, and Wayne Morris and Priscilla Lane get into trouble convincingly. And there are plenty of troubles. There is a wife to be concealed, scholastic difficulties to be overcome, and after hours escapades...
Although Apley, Claverly, the residential part of Dudley, Little and the various "rat houses" harbor many who intentionally dodge the House Plan, these dormitories are admittedly reserved for the House overflow each year. For the Plan to be athletically complete, therefore, some provision must be made for their residents...
This privilege should also be extended to those who live, by choice, in "rat houses." The problem of accommodating these men would be small, as most of them belong to clubs, and the light that this new experience would bring into the narrow lives of these individuals defies estimate...
Actress Marcy Wescott is fair of face. Actress Muriel Angelus is full of grace. Eddie Albert, last year a frisky, puzzled Brother Rat. this year makes a no less puzzled Twin Brother Antipholus. Fast, lively, imaginative is the dancing. Casting, directing and timing are perfect. Dowagers leave the theatre like subdebs, whistling the most melodious tunes that a Rodgers & Hart musical has had in several years...