Word: turk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lindstrom 1G. Raymond H. Norweb, Jr. '40, Jack M. Perlman '40, Rupert W. Pole '40, George E. Potter '40, William C. Rittman '39, Isadore N. Rosenberg '40, Thomas F. Seymour '40, Alan H. Shapley '40, Douglas R. Sears '40, David R. Simboll '40, J. L. Stuart 1L, Elkan Turk, Jr. '89, Walter I. Wardwell '40, Leonard D. Warren, Jr. '40, R. G. Wayland 1G. C. M. Williams 1G. and Richard L. Wing...
After the revolution of 1908, one of the early sanitary problems which modernizing Young Turks took up was disposal of the Constantinople dogs. No Turk could be found with the heart to kill the creatures. In 1910, about 40,000 of them were herded onto boats, ferried out to the rocky, uninhabited Island of Oxia in the Sea of Marmora, there left to starve (see cut). For months their piteous barkings echoed across Marmora to the Anatolian shore. A few kindly citizens rowed out with food, but the task was hopeless...
...Turk is not unkind according to his lights. He thinks it cruel to drown litters of kittens, he therefore puts them on the dustheap! In every side street you meet the cats, old and emaciated cats, cats with one eye blind, kittens toddling with unsteady step, cats with skin diseases, cats eternally scratching themselves, dying cats run over by cars on the roadside. When I asked residents in Istanbul what could be done about the cats, they shrugged their shoulders. 'Istanbul was menaced in its old wooden houses by a plague of rats; cats were necessary...
High scorer of the rifle bout was Elkan Turk, Jr. '39, who made 270 out of 300. Others of the five Crimson musketeers who counted were Parkman D. Howe, Jr. '39, Malcolm S. M. Watts, Jr. '38, John J. Whoriskey, Jr. '38, and Harry A. Freiberg...
...other copies of the Greyhounds caused Sculptor Diederich a little embarrassment. One was sold to a Turk who was furious to discover that the bronze was hollow. The other remained in Diederich's studio in New York for years. One evening in 1915 Sculptor Diederich gave a farewell party before moving to another studio. About the third round of drinks the problem of the greyhounds and what to do with them seemed very acute. Somebody suddenly remembered that there was in Central Park a vacant pedestal. With great sweating and grunting the entire party loaded the greyhounds into...