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Funk and festivity were too often edged out by rattiness and fear.

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Now, all of a sudden, the rattiness is being excised.

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But we soon began to regret the absence of sustenance, for this kind of weather makes for extreme lassitude shot through with rattiness, and under its influence nourishment dies in one with painful celerity.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, April 4, 1917 by Various