Word: marked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...strung out. . . . Then, on the home stretch, two almost equally favored horses, Troutlet and Mr. Gaiety, had it nose to nose. Premier William Lyon Mackenzie King of Canada and Governor-General Willingdon both clapped glasses to their eyes, bent forward, tense, tried to see which horse crossed the winning mark first. Then the Willingdon grey topper and the King black topper revolved toward each other in puzzlement. Even with glasses they could not pick the winner. The judges said: "Troutlet...
That snapping-jawed, tight-lipped fighter, that paladin in sailor's pants, Rear Admiral Mark Lambert Bristol, for eight years U. S. High Commissioner to Turkey, put a period last week to the most imposing paragraph of hard, successful work which any American has done in the Near East since the World...
...Admiral Bristol is the only pearl in our yoke of thorns!" cried the official Turkish newspaper Milliet last week, and its editor declared himself "inflamed with consuming anguish at the departure of our Great Friend." What has Mark Lambert Bristol, hard-swearing quarterdeck-man, done to draw such a halo of fulsome Turkish affection around his trim Admiral...
...Mark Bristol's good offices in Turkey began when the Allies occupied Constantinople after the War. The French, the English, the Italians and the defeated Turks were perpetually rowing with one another&$151;usually at the expense of the Turks. Admiral Bristol, fair-play fighter, settled a good many of the rows by the intervention of his keen, strong personality-very often on the side of underdog Turks...
During his eight years in Turkey, Mark Bristol has repeatedly "advised" the Young Turks, with a smile or a turtle-snap of his jaw, as occasion warranted. They took his advice in the matter of easing up on the Armenians-now no longer apt to be massacred like rats by Turks. They yielded when Admiral Bristol was grimly defending U. S. interests at the- drafting of the Treaty of Lausanne (TIME Aug. 6, 1923 et ante).* They wondered at his prodigious activities in directing U. S. relief among Baron Wrangel's shattered "White Russians" in Constantinople, and at Smyrna...