Word: ratting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...friends to recite his poetry over the telephone. Impudent, he has mercilessly ridiculed the ideas of his superior, Chicago's metaphysical young President Robert Maynard Hutchins, made sport of his colleagues in the Legislature by speaking in allegories, in one of which Boss Kelly figured as a rat, Chicago's Health Commissioner Herman Bundesen as a mosquito. When an opponent praised him for his eloquence, he retorted: "Just liquid vowels." Ambitious, he won a big radio audience outside Illinois when his 1936 Roosevelt talks proved so successful that he was put on a national network. Smith on Smith...
Loew's State and Orpheum have bullet-jawed Edward G. Robinson in "I Am the Law", one of a series of current pictures revolving about the career of Prosecutor Thomas Dewey. Relief of a sort to the rat-tat-tat of the Robinson film is provided by Joe E. Brown in the co-feature, "The Gladiator", which also includes Main Mountain Dean...
...rats" begin arriving this week at the Episcopal High School, in Alexandria, Va. By next week they will be learning to address their schoolmates as "gen'elmen." To be a "rat" (nickname for a new boy) is a special distinction this fall. For The High School (as it is known throughout the South) is starting its 100th sparkling year...
...many beatings, humiliations, neuroses, pathetic romanticizing, venereal disease and terror, gradually reaches a mental state indistinguishable from his delirium tremens when drunk. The crew use him as a butt, let up on him slightly when he is half dead. Once they find a substitute outlet in a fantastic rat-hunt-the high point of Sandemose's grotesque humor...
...prime importance are the preventive measures of the U. S. Public Health Service, carried out under the guidance of Dr. Clifford Rush Eskey. With shotguns and traps, field crews roam the country, killing rats and squirrels at sight. Rat burrows are sprayed with calcium cyanide. Rat-proofing of buildings is strongly urged, and, when necessary, incoming ships are fumigated. By such constant, vigilant rat-catching, Dr. Eskey expects to forestall an epidemic such as Los Angeles had, in 1924, when 24 people were stricken...