Word: tartaric
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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They played pranks in those days, we learn, some that we should not dare to play now, and some that we should be ashamed to. The stealing of cannon from the government armory was a more bagatelle. One bright wit filled the morning coffee with Tartar Emetic. So vile was the coffee, that no one noticed the taste, and the Yard shortly took on the aspect of Mount Vesuvius. It was common to wage giant war in Commons, when no one's life was safe, Great days. It was common to be cold in winter and hungry, under...
History. The Forbidden City, or the "Purple Forbidden Palace," stands in the center of the old Tartar quarter of Peking, surrounded by moats and battlements...
...Lawless. A tale of gypsies-Continental gypsies who travel in equine caravans and join battle with their Tartar enemies in the final reel. There is much hard riding, nasty leering, passionate gypsy love and gaily colored gypsy skirtings. Its merit is far above that of the average cinema. It is simple, direct and moderately entertaining. The meretricious and the tawdry are conspicuously absent. But just where Dorothy Dalton, the heroine, acquired her fame is a knotty problem. She manages in The Law of the Lawless to let her leading man, Charles de Roche, pick the play up and carry...
...Behind all of them stands the tremendous shadow of Roman civilization. Russia, and to a certain extent Germany, never came under the sway of Rome and never became so wholly saturated with the traditions of private property. Napoleon's famous saying, "Scratch a Russian and you will find a Tartar", is being vindicated. Russian civilization, at least its representatives in the saddle today show all the characteristics of the wandering, nomadic tribes of the Steppes. Until some common ground of understanding can be found between them and the Western Powers; it is hard to see on what basis relations...
Exhibiting a far more effective change in the line and a harder running backfield than was apparent against Holy Cross, the University eleven virtually whisked the Maine aggregation off the field Saturday, rolling up 41 points. Meeting a tartar in Holy Cross prevented Coach Fisher from sending in many substitutes; but against such a weak opposition as the Maine eleven offered, he threw in practically the entire squad, 34 players participating in the fray. At no time did the team appear to be seriously weakened by this multitude of substitutions, the ball remaining well down in the opponents' territory even...