Word: ratting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...which 66, or 80, or 95 percent of any expense, depending on the marginal tax rate, comes out of taxes and is paid by the government. As one writer put it recently, excess profits taxation constitutes a standing offer by the government to put several dollars down every rat hole in which a business concern drops one dollar...
...with fish, fruit, ham, chicken, lobster and a skinned hare. The rest of the painting seems to show that it takes all kinds to make a world: there are a broad-beamed model, a shepherd boy with a goat, a Negro with a wheelbarrow, a bishop, a gargoyle, a rat, a frog, a monkey, a barking dog and a girl with a bouquet, whom Lorjou describes as "the pretty woman one sees every day some place...
Chicken or Rat? At 42, Lorjou is a solitary, dead-serious Parisian who makes his living designing fabrics. His Atomic Age rates an "A" for effort, but it is clumsily drawn, and not so much composed as thrown together. Eying the crammed confusion of Lorjou's canvas, one unmoved gallerygoer remarked: "One atom bomb and all that will be left is the chicken, or perhaps only the rat...
...Picasso, who declined to send anything to the show, might have conveyed more with a quiet little sketch of either the chicken or the rat. Yet Paris gallerygoers, bored stiff with disciples of past masters, were welcoming Lorjou's rebellion last week by beating a path to his big, brash canvas...
...electron in black lace wound her way around two matrons labeled "proton" and "neutron" while an elderly ginger-haired Geiger counter clicked out their radioactive effect on a pretty girl named Agriculture. At a climactic moment, a Mrs. Monica Davial raced across the stage in spirited representation of a rat eating radioactive cheese. Mrs. Davial, it was noted in the program, had "recently returned from a trip to Tibet" and hence presumably had a nice understanding of these things. A small boy named Bunny May was on hand to guide recalcitrant atoms into their proper places...