Word: greeks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...authorized by the Greek Government to categorically deny the truth of the Vienna-Belgrade despatches and to state that they are utterly false...
Pleased was the venerable statesman's much younger wife, the onetime Miss Helena Schilizzi of London, ambitious, vivacious heiress of a rich Greek. She, rumors told, supplies the motivation for her husband's latest grasp at Power...
...Floranada Club had offered to him a house with "cool rooms overlooking tropical gardens," if he would buy a plot of ground in the community. Among the questions asked Promoter Cromwell by the bankruptcy lawyers was: "Had you ever considered that the King might turn the place into a Greek restaurant...
...free from the sensationalism of Barbusse and the sentimentalism of Papini, clear of the pathos of the recent cinema version, Ludwig's is a popular, but none the less scholarly, interpretation. His indefatigable passion for historical records and documentary scraps immerses him in contemporary Latin and Greek commentaries, but chiefly in the self-contradictory New Testament records which seem to him logical enough if arranged psychologically. The avowed object of his search is Jesus the human being, and in no sense the Christ of religious and theological controversy, which somewhat scornfully "he does not pretend to understand." From...
...Reading about Hearst may well become a national pastime. The man is like a character in a Greek myth; people have heard dozens of tales about him, suspect or imagine dozens more, know for a fact very few. Writer Winkler once worked for him and knows him as well as any man is permitted to know...