Word: ratting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bica, in the Brazilian state of Ceará, without rain for three years. "With the proud hospitality of the backlands we were invited to share the only food in the village. The meal was xique-xique (cactus), grilled over a small fire and eaten with a morsel of desert rat. When we left, we gave the mayor what food we had in the car: some oranges and biscuits. He thanked us and said the gift would go to the village children...
...University was characterized by increasing immortalization of "Harvard indifference." President Lowell, the preceding fall, had announced plans that were to attack both the worst forms of this indifference and the general form of living. But the "rat" houses along the Gold Coast were still the home of the elect. The CRIMSON still felt called upon to defend the buildings in their Indian summer from the observations of the Cornell Daily...
...years later, many of those 695 recipients have returned to Cambridge for the first time since they graduated. If any bother to recall old days this week, they will be remembering a departed era in Harvard history--an era of eating in Georgians and living in scattered apartments and rat houses--an era the Class of 1929 brought to a close.Plans for the construction of the Indoor Athletic Building were formulated during the senior year. The erection of the block-shaped I.A.B. was typical of an emphasis on athletics which pervaded the Class' four years in College...
...chances are that any show he brings to Broadway will be a hit. He started out as an odds-on favorite when he directed one of his first shows, Broadway, in 1926. Through the years he added such winners as Three Men on a Horse, Boy Meets Girl, Brother Rat, Room Service, Pal Joey, Where's Charley, Call Me Madam, Wonderful Town, Me and Juliet...
Eddie Albert is a singing comedian whose checkered career has hopped from Broadway (Brother Rat) to Hollywood (Roman Holiday) to TV studios and back again. Maria Margarita Guadalupe Boladoy Castillo is a dancing actress, known simply as Margo, who made her mark in such films as Winter set and Lost Horizon...