Word: tartars
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...hydraulic presses built so as not to crush the seeds in the process. From the presses the juice journeys through more aluminum pipes to more aluminum kettles, where it is again heated, this time to prevent fermentation. After spending several months in glass carboys to allow the cream of tartar to settle, the juice is siphoned off into bottles, pasteurized, shipped. The other important Welch process is that by which is made grape jam ("Grapelade"). Acid crystals had previously frustrated all attempts to make a commercial grape preserve until the Welch Company discovered (and patented) a process for extracting them...
...impressive occasion. At the theatre, garbed in a belted shooting jacket which he said had been made in 1904 and in what one observer called "an indescribably peaked Tartar cap," Shaw greeted his guests with gusto and much pleased tugging at his flaring, white beard. He left, however, before the final curtain...
...Menken's hearth, but later gave morbid ardor to her acting of Lady Macbeth in New Orleans. In New York she became a poetess and the wife of Heavyweight Champion John C. Heenan. Her acting in Mazeppa brought her fame. This was the sensational play wherein, as a Tartar boy, she wore the first boyish bob on the New York stage. The place was the Bowery Theatre, lately burned down. Part of her part every night was to let herself be strapped quasi-nude to the back of a black, spirited horse. When the horse ran away, the audience...
...Genghis Khan (1162-1227). Persons so un as to behold his Tartar funeral proces were beheaded in order that the bad news not travel back to his capital...
...have always begrudged them every little bit of the sparing praise you have ever accorded them. __ In your article on Yehudi Menuhin [TIME, Feb. 6, p. 24], the Jewish violin prodigy, you gave a sketch of his life; you sang his praises; you told us how he was a Tartar; in fact, you did everything but mention that he is Jewish. This you did deliberately, with malice aforethought. Whenever one speaks of Yehudi, one simply can't leave out the fact that he is Jewish. You stupid, blind and jealous editors did. I like your nerve...