Word: greco-turkish
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...Underwood's cofounder; in Tucson, Ariz. Onetime Kansas door-to-door salesman of stereoscopic views, by 1890 he and his brother had offices throughout the U.S. and Europe. To improve their wares, Bert learned photography, in 1897 sent his syndicate off to a good start by covering the Greco-Turkish War for Harper's Weekly and the Illustrated London News...
Died. Thomas Franklin Fairfax Millard, 74, veteran war correspondent, first U.S. political adviser to the Chinese Republic; in Seattle. He covered the Boer, Greco-Turkish, Spanish-American and Russo-Japanese wars, World War I, the Boxer Rebellion, and part of the Sino-Japanese war, helped found The China Press, first U.S. paper in Shanghai, and Millard's Weekly Review in Shanghai. More honest than discreet, he was a frequent critic of U.S. policy in China, a more strenuous critic of Japanese policy. He was adviser to the Chinese at the Paris Peace Conference, the League of Nations sessions from...
...model Author Rodocanachi disclaims any single prototype, says he drew on several adventurous Greeks of his acquaintance. His own career offered a good starting point. Egyptian-born, English-educated, Constantine Rodocanachi is a veteran of the Greco-Turkish, the Balkan and World Wars, was a leader of the Venizelos revolution. He has made and lost several fortunes, served in the diplomatic corps. Now 58 years old, he has retired to devote his full time to writing. Forever Ulysses is his first novel...
...ruin of his capitalistic industry. Only Sir Basil Zaharoff, doddering brokenly in his wheel chair, seems to give any outward evidence of disillusionment. That may be only because he gambled $20,000,000 of his personal fortune on the only war in which he ever took emotional sides--the Greco-Turkish War in 1921--and lost...
...novel, Maggie, a Girl of the Streets, was printed at his own expense, under a pseudonym; it fell flat. His second, The Red Badge of Courage, brought him jobs as war correspondent although until then he had never seen a battle. He served in a Cuban filibustering expedition, the Greco-Turkish War; Spanish-American War. The last few years of his life he lived in England, was a great & good friend of the late great Joseph Korzeniowski (Conrad). No less a pundit than Herbert George Wells has said that Crane's The Open Boat is "the finest short story...