Word: ratting
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...uncommon for the female rat to exhibit disapproval of a male rat introduced into her premises. Her attitude towards the male, at such times, is merely defensive?if he approaches her, she rises on her hind legs and utters cries of distress, repelling him with her forepaws...
Each year, however, there are many persons who suspect that they smell a rat. This thought, which is largely inspired by the higher range of prices at the store, is raging at high heat this year as a price war seems ready to start in the Square. It is well to examine the setup before one adopts such an idea. Control of policy rats in the hands of the stockholders who include several graduates. These men receive no remuneration for their services. In addition there is an active board of directors, made up from members of the Faculty and undergraduate...
Grip, the Rat is a story packed with words pronounced differently in different localities. It begins: "Once there [thar, theah] was a young rat [ret, rate] who couldn't make [mek, mack] up his mind. Whenever the other [udder, othah] rats asked [eskt, ast] him if he would like [lake, lack] to come out [oat, aout] with them [dem], he would answer [enser, ahnser], 'I don't know [ah doan-no, I dunno],' and when they said, 'Would you [wouldja] like to stop [stawp] at home [hum, hown]?' he wouldn...
Miss P. Belle Kessinger of Pennsylvania State College pulled a rat out of a warm, leaded-silk sack, noted that it had died of lead poisoning, and proceeded to Manhattan. There last week she told the American Home Economics Association that leaded silk garments seem to her potentially poisonous. Her report alarmed silk manufacturers who during the past decade have sold more than 100,000,000 yards of leaded silk without a single report of anyone's being poisoned by their goods. Miss Kessinger's report also embarrassed Professor Lawrence Turner Fairhall, Harvard chemist, who only two years...
Miss Kessinger, who doubted Professor Fairhall's results, made some little sacks of leaded silk. Into each sack she tied a rat and kept it there with only its head exposed for an hour a day. At first she perceived no changes. Then rapidly the rats' skins became irritated. One rat died. And Miss Kessinger became bold enough to question the professor's dictum...