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...extent of the damage was so great that a detective from the Cambridge police force was assigned to the situation. The officer could not ferret out the party guilty of the offense, but stated after investigation that he definitely "smelled a rat...
...many, Dr. Zinsser was regarded as the world's leading authority on typhus, the ancient plague which is now known to be virus-borne by human lice and rat fleas. Five years ago, in Rats, Lice and History, he traced with surprising charm the red-brown spots of typhus across world history. This year he announced a method for mass production of a typhus vaccine...
...Denver hangout was the Windsor Hotel, where he once turned loose a bushel of rats, closely followed by a pack of rat terriers. They swarmed from attic to wine cellar, leaving havoc in their wake. Ogilvy's best friend at the Windsor was its amiable, hard-boiled bartender, Harry Tammen, who in 1893, with a handsome, swaggering young gambler from Chicago, Frederick Gilmer Bonfils, bought the Denver Post...
...this point by the House, concluded her remarks in the Sunday Dispatch: "In no conceivable circumstances should members be allowed for any personal reasons to leave this island when it is threatened with invasion-for that is not representative of the British people. It is only representative of the rat. If members apply for an exit permit, except for Government business, they should be forced to apply for the Chiltern Hundreds.* Moreover, unless they return to their country in its hour of need, they should forfeit their [British] nationality...
...into more trouble than did his battlefield impetuosity. In 1930 he was almost court-martialed for calling Premier Mussolini a "hit-and-run driver." Retired, General Butler lectured for peace, published a book entitled War Is a Racket, advocated complete U. S. isolation coupled with an ironclad defense a rat couldn't crawl through." He was a Quaker...