Word: ratting
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...certain things I have done, they are things so trivial by the ordinary standards . . . that even I cannot explain why they can still be sometimes almost excruciating to recall; hard, wounding things I have said to people . . . the way I once hit at and did not kill a rat and had to go on killing it, and other things on that scale." Corroborates Biographer West: "The gossip flourished, but no story of meanness or betrayal has ever faced the light. No story has ever faced the light. There is no story that cannot face the light. The paper...
...Kingston, N. C., a farmer promised Thomas J. White and Ray Barbre a hen's egg for every rat they killed on his farm. When they had shot 70 the farmer begged to be released from the bargain because he needed the rest of his eggs for his family, offered to substitute sweet potatoes. White and Barbre shot 30 more rats...
Varied were the reasons advanced. Many people noted a nest in the neighborhood, agreed that the attacking owl probably was protecting fledglings. Others suggested that owls may mistake the hairy human head for a fat, slow-moving rat...
...unless it be the sudden supervention of those phenomena associated with the blossoming of the sex function. But this occurs over a wide range of years. . . . Man is the only mammal with a prolonged period of development which may roughly be called the age of adolescence." At birth a rat has a physiological age equivalent to a nine-year-old child. "The elephant, in spite of its huge bulk, seems to pass through the successive phases of development to adulthood at approximately the same chronological rate as man." Anthropoids and Man keep time for six years. Then suddenly the anthropoids...
...successor Diamond was. Both were assailed in a hotel bedroom. Both staggered out, were carried by the same doctor to the same hospital, to the same room. Both were married, both refused to tell the police who shot them, both believing (with the police) in the underworld code of rat eat rat...