Word: turkish
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...importance of this work was paramount. Only one other Briton eclipsed her achievements- Colonel Thomas Lawrence. They worked by similar means, both possessing an uncanny power of winning the confidence and loyalty of Arabians. The cash value of their services was set at $750,000 by the Turkish Empire which publicly offered that sum for their heads...
Paris in 1825. "Play me something," said the pale, sarcastic genius of twenty, the already famous Liszt. Von Lenz played Aufforderung zum Tanz* and then other music by Weber. The glitter of a dagger in the sun was in the eyes of Liszt, and he put down his long Turkish pipe, amazed. He had never heard of Weber's piano music, and he solemnly pledged eternal gratitude to Von Lenz from Riga for having introduced to him such beauty. He had known only Weber's universally popular opera Frieschütz.š And young Weber had been dead...
...announced that the Italian government will seek permission from the Turkish government for the destroyers to pass the fortifications of the Dardanelles on their way to Roumania.* Experts opined that the submarines can slip past in any case...
...pushed over a precipice. Mr. Griffith starts by making love to a gunman's wife, is surprised by the husband and terrified by his artillery. The rest of the picture is the old movies comedy-chase. Mr. Griffith drives a fire truck through heavily populated streets, invades a Turkish bath. These things are, as always, funny...
...consideration and was so vigorously protested that the British, French and Dutch interests eventually permitted the U. S. a quarter share of the work and rewards. But one Calouste Sarkis Gulbenkian, Armenian banker, millionaire and onetime business agent of defunct Sultan Abdul Hamid, held a neat 5% of the Turkish Petroleum Co., under whose 75-year exploitation concession the internationals intended to operate...