Word: greeks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...months ago Eleutherios Venizelos, scholar, statesman, translator into modern Greek of an historical opus by Thucydides (TIME, March 22, 1926), deserted the pleasant island of Crete where he was born, and journeyed to Athens...
Died. David Proskey, 75, famed collector & numismatist, after a brief illness; in North Caldwell, N. J. In the Proskey collection is a Greek gold drachma, one of four known specimens of what is said to be the first coin ever minted (about 700 B. C.). A duplicate in the J. P. Morgan collection is valued...
Like Nick F. and Nick the Greek, many gamblers are known by mysterious and confusing titles. The most successful racetrack gambler at present is Chicago O'Brien, who regards running horses as an investment. Saratoga is his capital; he plays one horse a day, usually a favorite, and never goes broke overnight...
Jerry the Greek, alias Jerry the Rubber, Jerry Luvadis, is a less shady character. Incapable of reading or writing, he is a trainer of Jack Dempsey, is famed for a perfume stronger than ammonia which he uses in large quantities...
...trie trac with butcher and furnace-makers replaced learned converse with the intellectuals of Florence. Though he filled much of his time with wine, women, and oaths, he was forced out of sheer boredom to pore long hours over his beloved Latin-history, comedy, philosophy (translated from the Greek)-and set down his own political philosophy (The Prince, The Discourses), his own broad humor (Mandragola...