Word: ratting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...funniest sequence in Private Lives was the rough-and-tumble finale of Act II in which Mr. Coward and Miss Lawrence scrambled on the floor after she had cracked a phonograph record over his head. Even this delicious bit of business had its roots in earlier Coward work. The Rat Trap (unproduced) not only ended its second act in similar vein but its third as well. Perhaps it all goes back further than that, for when he was a child Playwright Coward once bashed a little girl on the head with a spade because she would not take seriously...
...fever: she knows it by the smell. Sure enough, she is right. And then, though the Doctor works like a bull to get the epidemic under control, his enemies go to work to put the blame on him. As Board of Health terrier he should have smelled out the rat that polluted the town's water supply. The "better element." cumulatively exasperated by Doc Bull's plain speaking and low living, rally to get his scalp. With conscious irony Author Cozzens lets the town villain, smart Henry Harris, save Dr. Bull's hair by turning the laugh...
...China Union University. Cheng-tu. Szechwan Province, where they teach, had sound teeth under crusts of tartar. The Agnews examined native foods, reasoned that phosphorus and sunlight were the essential preventives of tooth decay. They took leaves of absence from West China Union University to prove their theory on rats at the University of Toronto, their alma mater. Last week they were in Manhattan to tell missionaries, doctors and dentists that they have been able to produce or prevent tooth decay at will in practically any rat, by regulating the amount of phosphorus and Vitamin D in the diet...
...runs her husband's bank until the day her son gets married, when she turns over the reins to him. His mother-in-law is a Mrs. Praskins (Polly Moran) who is all that Maggie Warren is not. Lizzie Praskins has the face, manners and characteristics of a rat and she starts a run on the Warren bank by squeaking for her money out of a desire to be troublesome. The run is disastrous because young John Warren has been so stupid as to lend the bank's best bonds to parties who do not wish to give...
Ratkiller Nicholes is a small mild man of 63. His main office is in Atlanta, Ga., where his son handles his correspondence. He has been killing rats for 20 years, has operated all over the U. S. He kills rats free. Then he shows his method to his clients, sells them Nicholes Over-Nite Rat Exterminator (price, 50? a can). In this way he makes more money than if he charged for his work. He killed 49,000 rats in Chicago in 1922, gained much fame thereby. His best clients are food stores, schools, hospitals, colleges. He has killed rats...