Word: turkishly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Richard Joshua Reynolds chose the name Camel for the cigaret which revolutionized the tobacco industry because he liked animal names and because Camel was easy to pronounce. Before Camels were invented the U.S. was producing about ten billion cigarets a year, a large proportion Turkish. Leading domestic brands like Piedmont and Sweet Caporal were made of unblended Carolina leaf. The year Tobaccoman Reynolds launched his cigaret of blended domestic and Turkish tobacco (1913), cigaret consumption leaped to fifteen and a half billion. He followed it up with a highly successful merchandising campaign, profited immensely by the amazing luck that fell...
WEAVING his heroic story against the grim tragic background of the Armenian sufferings at the hands of their diabolically cruel Turkish masters, Franz Werfel has evolved a novel which for richness of narrative detail and skillful completeness has few peers. The pitiful plight of this downtrodden Christian people reached its climax during the early years of the World War when the young Turks set their oriental cleverness to the organization of their nation as solidified national unit on the Western pattern...
...Armenians were a harmless folk but they were an alien body within the Turkish body politic and when the years of starvation and oppression following 1870 failed to wipe them out the Turkish government resolved to utilize its strength as an ally of the Central Powers and to eliminate the Armenians completely from the picture. The Armenian villages were uprooted and the people pushed on a horror-filled march which led only to starvation, rape, murder and eventual death for all. Village by village the Armenians were driven into nothingness until the Ittihad pointed at the villages about the mountain...
Werfel's story is the tale of these forty days of hardy struggle against the Turkish forces from without and the equally fearsome forces of starvation and chaos from within. The story is a grand one and so inspired has Werfel been with his material that he had attained truly epic reaches in his telling of it. His occupation with narrative details is at times responsible for overlength and unnecessary minutia. He also errs in neglecting the personalities of his characters who become sculptured impersonations rather than human beings. These faults are unfortunate limitations on the greatness of the work...
...Gabriel Bagradian. rich Armenian back home in Syria after 23 years in Paris, nothing of this scheme was known. With his French wife and young son he had returned to his family estate just in time to be caught by the outbreak of the War. As an officer of Turkish artillery, he expected to be called up, was prepared to go. But significant incidents and rumors soon showed him how the wind was blowing. While he was waiting for the storm he racked his brain to find a possible shelter. On Musa Dagh, seagirt mountain overlooking the village, he found...