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...Listen, rat! Who do you think you're talking to anyway?" So saying he pulled a huge knife from his pocket. HE struggled vainly for some minutes to open the blade. Finally he hurled it through the window sending a shower of shattered glass around the room. All the other boys and girls laughed. They thought Burlingame as pretty funny...

Author: By Fanny Masters, | Title: The Crime | 12/6/1935 | See Source »

Boiled Miss Barrymore, digging her nails into the young woman's chin: "The hell I can't, you little wart! . . . You little rat! ... You little bitch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 18, 1935 | 11/18/1935 | See Source »

...fighting Mr. Ickes for a share of Public Works. . . . Those hundreds of millions-which must be spent some day-all were set aside for Mr. Ickes not to spend, or went to Mr. Hopkins for raking leaves and boondoggling. Hundreds of millions more are being poured down the same rat-holes-while the equipment of our Army remains obsolete and insufficient...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Flop, Mess, Tangle | 11/11/1935 | See Source »

...under a Louisiana State law, drafted by Huey Long just before his death, making all RFC transactions with State banks a matter of public record. Confronted with positive evidence, RFC admitted the New Orleans deal, hastily announced sale of the newspaper bonds to Banker Davis. Quick to smell a rat was Delaware's Senator Daniel O. Hastings, who demanded a sweeping investigation of Paul Davis, his bank and RFC's interest in it. Said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Tennessee Threat | 10/21/1935 | See Source »

...falls in love with a mealy-mouthed young prospector. is a painfully uninspired bit of hackwork. That the picture, nonetheless, manages to be an intermittently lively and entertaining period piece is due partly to Howard Hawks's skillful direction, partly to a fine characterization of a frowsy wharf-rat by Producer Goldwyn's latest discovery. Walter Brennan. Good shot: Edward G. Robinson incredulously examining the corpse of his henchman (Brian Dunlevy), hanged by the Vigilantes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Oct. 21, 1935 | 10/21/1935 | See Source »

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