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...seemingly set at rest by the San Remo treaty of 1920. This left the U. S. out of consideration and was so vigorously protested that the British, French and Dutch interests eventually permitted the U. S. a quarter share of the work and rewards. But one Calouste Sarkis Gulbenkian, Armenian banker, millionaire and onetime business agent of defunct Sultan Abdul Hamid, held a neat 5% of the Turkish Petroleum Co., under whose 75-year exploitation concession the internationals intended to operate...
...turned toward her "I would like your fascinating little twinkling rather nice ankles did I not like you much and much better", he suggested. To which the tall, lithe and lethal Armenian snorted over his Veuve Cliquot, or wasn't it Veuve Cliquot?--one never knows, does one as the birds on the ledges above the tower of St. Anne Who Was Awfully Good To Goodlooking Women have often chirped into the air of Mayfair on a bright and glimmerful day of sunshine and the sheene of nicest stockings on not the nicest ladies...
...delightfully queer and intriguingly dear person (I can't forget those subtitles) and one just knows she has it. But the direction decided to make an intimate story more intimate by confining it to a series of close ups. And no girl, as the hook nose of the Armenian who admitted he was an Armenian and was therefore probably an Armenian since no one would call himself an Armenian if it weren't once suggested, can really be attractive beneath a microscope. Though she can dance, very well or more or less, as The Honorable Peter Pufferingsfordshire would include, dear...
...History of Armenian Architecture" (illustrated), Professor Conant, Robinson Hall, Fine Arts...
...Austria 20 years before beginning to pay. According to present appearances the other two debts are about as likely to be paid as those of the Confederate States of America. The $193,000,000 Russian debt has been repudiated by the present Russian government, and the $12,000,000 Armenian debt was contracted by a government which no longer exists...