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Word: turk (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Across a wrestling ring in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden last week two men growled and glowered at each other. Squatting in one corner, wearing a fancy ruby-colored robe with turban to match, was Arteen Ekizian, 30-year-old Turk, one time fish-peddler, U. S. sailor and Hollywood "extra." To 5,000 raucous spectators he was Ali Baba, the Terrible Turk of whom posters asked IS HE MAN OR BEAST? Ali Baba's head resembled a speckled ostrich egg. His upper lip was hidden behind a sweeping pair of handle bar mustachios. His teeth were jagged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Baba & Behemoths | 5/18/1936 | See Source »

...Maloy, Lewis H. Mills, Robert H. Morse, Henry S. Mowbray, Robert D. Nuner, Schuyler Pardee, Constantine W. Patterson, S. Allen Pendleton, George W. Phillips, Benjamin Pitman, Jr., Edward P. Richardson, Jr., Edward H. Schoyer, Paul P. Selvin, Willard P. Sheppard, Jr., Edric B. Smith, Jr., Gray Taylor, Elkan Turk, Jr., George S. Viereck, Jr., Hugh G. Williams, David B. Wire, Richard Witkin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MEMBERS OF LEVERETT NAMED FOR NEXT YEAR | 5/7/1936 | See Source »

Background of the pepper case was as dizzy as any U. S. dance of corporate dummies. Between Garabed Bishirgian's barren birthplace and his swank mansion in London's Park Lane lay a speculative trail that included caviar, tin and Turk ish rugs. By reputation his "only god was a rising share," though on week ends he was devoted to his 600 pigs on his model farm in Surrey. His lavish stag parties were the talk of the City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Pepper Prospectus | 3/2/1936 | See Source »

...group is number one man Parkman D. Howe, Jr. '37. Others now shooting in a postal match with Princeton, are: Anton W. Asmuth '38, Richard P. Axten '37, Harry A. Freiburg '39, Henry McC. Godden '36, Spencer D. Howe '37, George A. Matteson '36, Philip Straus '37, Elkan Turk, Jr. '39, and Malcolm S. McN. Watts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rifle Club Will Clash With Cadets of National Guard | 12/14/1935 | See Source »

William A. McFadden; Saul B. Podolsky; Waino T. Ray; Loring Raymond; Royal S. Schaaf; Robert E. Schnittger; Irving Soden; Riggs Stewart; Theodore M. Strongin; Harold R. Taylor; Elkan Turk, Jr.; George Wasserman; Morton L. Weiss; Paul Zeidel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BAND TO CLOSE SEASON TONIGHT WITH BANQUET | 11/25/1935 | See Source »

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