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...what does the delegate propose? To place the vicious vagrant, the wandering Arabs, the Tartar hordes of our large cities on the level with the virtuous and good man? . . . These Arabs steeped in crime and vice, to be placed on a level with industrious population is insulting and degrading to the community. . . . I hold up my hands against a proceeding which confers on the idle, vicious, degraded vagabond a right at the expense of the poor and industrious portion of the commonwealth...
...Manhattan, NBC's Bride & Groom, which marries one lucky couple on TV each weekday, found it had netted a tartar in Sigmund Welt, 24. Scheduled to be married last week to Josephine Buono, Sigmund rebelled when he discovered that his expense-paid honeymoon had to be spent at winterbound Princeton, N.J. He demanded Florida or California instead. Welt was bounced from the program and, minutes later, bounced again by his fiancee. After thinking things over until 5 a.m., Sigmund decided he just had to talk to Josephine. He broke into the basement of her Brooklyn home, stole up toward...
Pyramid of the People. Half the people of the Soviet Union are Great Russians; the rest, a score of races, speak 200 different tongues and dialects. There are Tartar horsemen unchanged since Genghis Khan, primitive Yakhuts, Samoyed reindeer herders, Mongol tractor drivers and Cossack commissars. There are 20 million Moslems in the U.S.S.R. All of these diverse and frequently antagonistic peoples are ruled by the Soviet elite: some 50,000 ministers, managers, army officers and intellectuals, who are more removed from the people than were the Czar's nobility...
...which there was but one cure-to stop eating and give the famished body a chance to consume its own diseased tissues. Not that the Master objected to patients purchasing his "Isham's California Waters of Life" for "dissolving and washing away cancer, and curing paralysis, baldness, dyspepsia, tartar diabetes bunions, and the cigarette, liquor and drug habits...
When in 1790, for example, students were required to submit to an annual public examination before the Corporation and Overseers, they tried to defeat this rule. On the morning of the examination, some men poured a tartar emetic into the kitchen boilers, and all but four students were forced to rush from the hall...