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without shame, apology or discrimination.
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They abused their visitors with a scorn grown mechanical from use:
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black men, white men, Puerto Ricans, Mexican, Jews, Poles, whatever.
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All were inadequate and weak.
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All came under their jaundiced eyes
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and were the recipients of their disinterested wrath.
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They took delight in cheating them.
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On one occasion the town well knew they lured a Jew up the stairs,
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pounced on him, all three, held him up by the heels,
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shook everything out of his pants pockets and threw him out of the window.
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Neither did they have respect for women who, although not their colleagues so to speak,
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nevertheless deceived their husbands regularly or irregularly. It made no difference.