Word: tartaric
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Francisco, Yehudi Menuhin is at home. He was born there eleven years ago, the first son of Moshe Menuhin, a Russian, and his Tartar wife. There was no money at home to pay for a nursegirl and there were symphony concerts outside to be had for the going, so Yehudi, when he was not quite a year old, was taken along. The Menuhins scarcely ever missed a concert from then on until Conductor Alfred Hertz and all his musicians came to know them, and call the baby their mascot. Yehudi's first interest was in Concert- master Louis Persinger...
...Tartar Rule in Russia", Professor Kapovich, Sever...
...which prevented dental decay. But by the time of the Christian Era, Egyptian life was luxurious, food was soft. Consequently tooth decay was as prevalent as today. One batch of 500 mummies showed at least one tooth rotted in each skull, and almost every set of teeth covered with tartar...
...very like The Perils Of Pauline telescoped into one sitting (in Siberia) and inverted into the masculine gender. The hero, as told in Jules Verne's novel, is solemnly commissioned by the Tsar Alexander to take a message from Moscow to the Grand Duke in Irkutsk. After encountering the Tartar hordes single-handed for no good reason, Mike arrives in time to kill the archvillain with his bare hands. The motivation puerile, the photography clumsy, it has, however, some good horse-backing...
There is significance in Russia's recent overtures to the Mikado's government. It is an old saying, "Scratch a Russian and you'll find a Tartar." And why is it not natural that Japan should seek her place among nations through "the most eastern of Europeans and the most western of Asiatics...