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...rats" begin arriving this week at the Episcopal High School, in Alexandria, Va. By next week they will be learning to address their schoolmates as "gen'elmen." To be a "rat" (nickname for a new boy) is a special distinction this fall. For The High School (as it is known throughout the South) is starting its 100th sparkling year...
...prime importance are the preventive measures of the U. S. Public Health Service, carried out under the guidance of Dr. Clifford Rush Eskey. With shotguns and traps, field crews roam the country, killing rats and squirrels at sight. Rat burrows are sprayed with calcium cyanide. Rat-proofing of buildings is strongly urged, and, when necessary, incoming ships are fumigated. By such constant, vigilant rat-catching, Dr. Eskey expects to forestall an epidemic such as Los Angeles had, in 1924, when 24 people were stricken...
Sympathy of practicality for Readers Hooper and Page who are worrying with hogs on ice and barn rats. Let Readers Hooper and Page try to catch a "hog on ice" and they will have no need of book-lore to explain the expression. Deferentially and apologetically to Reader Hooper; the expression in the hinterlands is not "pert as a barn rat," but applies to sundry persons who are described as having "the cheek of a privy rat." The bucolic rhythm beats only in the backwoods...
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TIME, which seems to delight in an occasional salty phrase like that one, might like to be reminded of "as pert as a barn rat" which would be an ideal descriptive locution for Simone Simon, and not bad for some of Mussolini's poses. If you are asked to explain that one, I'll be glad to take it apart...