Word: ratting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...RIVER RAT-Daniel Lundberq-Rey-nal & Hitchcock...
...River Rat is the story of a high-school senior in Dedham, Mass., where U. S. 1 crosses the Charles River. A first novel, it is a notable success on two counts. It conveys a sense of its river locale as sharply and effortlessly as a good photograph. It also rings true and funny as a story of adolescence...
...River Rats are a shabby proletarian confraternity, loosely organized into canoe clubs, whose lives and small earnings are wholly focussed on the floats, canoes, club dances, coving (river talk for necking et seq.} and races. To Ralph they represent that lowbrow, duty-destroying athletic aristocracy among whom most "nice" boys long to qualify. He wants intensely to be accepted as a rat. Harriet, who knows on which side of the tracks her future lies, wants him not to. Then Dutchy appears. A nice, hard blonde, the daughter of a fireman who drowns in the Charles, Dutchy is the essence...
...average student's hazy impression of Dudley Hall, the commuters' center, is that it is something on the order of a combined rat-house and cafeteria. For outside of the commuters themselves, the preponderant majority of Harvard men has never set foot in the building...
...College down, had seen plenty of service with troops and acquitted himself with the cold efficiency that George Marshall likes. Like Marshall he is no West Pointer but a V. M. I. graduate. The legend of Cadet Marshall, All-Southern tackle, was ten years old when Brother Rat Gerow got his diploma...