Word: ratting
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...vulgar seductions," under such titillating or shocking headlines as SNARED BY A SCOUNDREL. AN INNOCENT COUNTRY BEAUTY or ROAST MAN (on a hotel fire). Promotion-wise Publisher Fox sponsored John L. Sullivan's bare-knuckled heavyweight bouts of the '80s, also gave championship belts and medals to rat catchers, oyster openers, bartenders and barbers...
There the repentant Toad determines to lead a new life, exemplified by his loyal but stuffy middle class friends, Badger, Mole, and Rat. When he escapes from the Tower, however, he reverts to his behavior as headstrong scion of the aristocracy...
Freshmen get their first hot tips on the extra-curricular rat race at 7:15 p.m. tonight in a New Lecture Hall meeting...
Some conservatives suggested a Western-style solution: they wanted a "Rat Week," with plenty of anti-rat ballyhoo, and, to stimulate private enterprise, an increase in the present bounty of a half ana (1?) for each rat caught. Others objected that if the bounty were raised, it would pay the city's poor to go into the business of rat-raising and Bombay would wind up with more rats than ever. Councillor Gordhandas Goculdas Moraji, an orthodox Hindu, shuddered at even considering rat extermination during the current festival in honor of Ganapati (Ganesha), an elephant-headed god who likes...
...novel Cry, the Beloved Country; Marc Blitzstein's musical version of Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes; an S. N. Behrman adaptation called I Know My Love (with Alfred Lunt & Lynn Fontanne); a new Cole Porter musical, Heaven and Earth; Garson Kanin's The Rat Race...