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...Rat-tat-tat like a machine gun. the President rapped out a long series of appointments to important offices created by new laws. As administrator of the new Housing Act he appointed James A. Moffett, onetime vice president of Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey, who lost his job year ago in a quarrel with Walter C. Teagle over supporting the Administration's oil policy. To the new Communications Commission he named Eugene O. Sykes and Thad H. Brown, Chairman and Vice Chairman of the now defunct Federal Radio Commission, and added Paul Walker (Oklahoma Corporation Commissioner). Norman Case...
...sure you all have read How they rob and steal, And how those who squeal, Are usually found dying or dead. . . . If they try to act like citizens And rent them a nice little flat, About the third night they are invited to fight By a submachine gun rat-tat-tat. Some day they will go down together, And they will bury them side by side. To a jew it means grief, To the law it's relief, But it is deafh to Bonnie and Clyde.* But they did not bury them side by side, because Bonnie...
Behind Samuel Insull lay 23 idle days of voyaging on the blue waters of the Mediterranean and the Atlantic. Behind that voyage lay nearly two years of lonely exile when he was hunted like a rat in a hole. Behind that exile lay three years of fear ful struggle to preserve a utilities empire in which thousands and thousands of people had sunk their life savings. Behind that struggle lay nearly 50 years of hard work during which, at first acre by acre and later province by province, Samuel Insull had built that empire. On the Water...
...investigated and found a series of mysterious facts but no direct evidence of crime. Sarret. Schmidt & Cie. were in the habit of renting various small villas as "nursing homes." Under a boulder in the garden of Sarret's house in Marseilles, detectives found a great mass of bones-rat bones, cat bones, assorted dog bones up to the skeleton of a St. Bernard, all more or less decomposed by acid. Soon thereafter Georges Sarret rented M. Poncel's villa L'Hermitage and got into difficulties with another of his underlings, an unfrocked priest named Louis Chambon...
...Author Lion Feuchtwanger looks like a fat-cheeked rat. Maybe he does. But surely, of all the numerous species in that large order of mammals, the rodents, you could have selected an animal that would have fitted in with a precise description of Feuchtwanger's singularly rodent-like physiognomy - and yet would have carried with it not quite so nasty a connotation. Perhaps a fat-cheeked squirrel or beaver might have done just as well...