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...Mmmm, yes, delicious," said the girl, brandishing the thighbone without glanc-ng up. "At least as a change from rat. Where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Rats & the Katz | 12/3/1945 | See Source »

Kipling's Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, a gallant little mongoose, loved everything but snakes. His great enemies were the cobra family. Rikki was contemptuously friendly with Chuchundra, a muskrat, and on fair terms with Chua, a regular rat. But except in Kipling's enchanted garden, rats are the mongoose's standard prey, and are responsible for most of its progress around the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Look Out for Rikki | 11/26/1945 | See Source »

Mongooses are still a hotly debated subject in Hawaii. Sugar planters, who rejoice in rat-free, ungnawed cane, are pro-mongoose. Sportsmen, who have tried with indifferent success to stock the islands with ground-living game birds, are anti...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Look Out for Rikki | 11/26/1945 | See Source »

Mixed Drink. In Springfield, Ohio, hospital attendants reported Willie Mar tin's condition as "good" after he had been treated for absorption of a home made punch made of iodine, turpentine, kerosene, rat poison, lighter fluid, shoe polish, and wine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 19, 1945 | 11/19/1945 | See Source »

Once upon a time, when the Yewnited States was just a little shaver among the nations, but already very spoiled along the literate Eastern fringes, there lived younder in Tennessee a lovable old man with a tongue like a rat-tailed file and a face so hard they called him Old Hickory. He was a great hero. In the War of 1812, he licked the British in the Battle of Noo Orleens (some time after peace had been made). Everybody loved him because he had come up the hard way from nothing to a plantation and owning slaves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Old Deal | 10/22/1945 | See Source »

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