Word: ratting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rat in Ring...
While reading over the situation in the Dardanelles, I smelled a rat. Looking very closely at your map [TIME, Sept 2], I saw it trapped in the red circle...
Pegler, it seems, has a scunner against the modern hotel: it is no longer a home away from home. In Pegler's eyes, it is "a combination dance hall, vaudeville house, nightclub and rat race for disorderly elements. . . . We who rent the rooms . . . have been imposed upon grievously ... to accommodate . . . casuals off the streets who come to dance, drink and marvel in alcoholic stupor at ... the tough blonde griping hoarsely into a tin can mounted on a pipe . . . and pretty little thrips who sing mischievously about adultery . . . while Ollie Twitch and his reefer boys are tearing the atmosphere...
...Louis Post-Dispatch's Richard L. Stokes had been the first reporter to check in, and the P-D had consistently run more coverage than any other U.S. paper. He put up cheerfully with sunken tubs with 15 faucets in a panel, the diving bats, the sleek grey rats. (The Overseas News Agency's Robert Gary put one rat out of action with a well-aimed copy of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.) The New York Times's Ray Daniell and radio's nervous Bill Shirer were less patient. They reached the high note of indignation when...
...University rooms becomes an anachronism. Designed originally as an attempt to make Harvard a more cohesive unit by bringing as many students as possible within the orbit of House life and to break down the isolation and discontinuity of College life caused by the widespread practice of living in "rat-houses" in order to pay one's club dues, the rule has more than justified its intention...