Word: couyoumdjoglou
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week an impatient, high-nosed lady with flashing dark eyes paced the deck of the steamer Rumania in Istanbul harbor. She was Mme Zahra Lilie Couyoumdjoglou, wife of a Bagdad date merchant, whose great adventure had become a sad denouement. For months in Athens she had befriended Fugitive Samuel Insull. She had successfully smuggled him off on the steamer Maiotis. She had befuddled the Athens police so badly that she faced a charge of perjury. She had rushed off to Rumania to implore Magda Lupescu, King Carol's mistress, to provide asylum for the fugitive. But Insull...
...this time a wordy battle was going on in Insull's apartment between Mrs. Insull and the spectacular Mme Zahra Couyoumdjoglou, wife of a Bagdad date merchant who has been a bosom friend of Samuel Insull since his arrival in Athens. Mrs. Insull had wanted her husband to surrender and take his chances in the U. S. courts. That seemed too prosaic for Mme Couyoumdjoglou who arranged the Odyssey of the Maiotis...
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