Word: ypsilanti
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sick man of Europe" who attacked Greece in 1822. It was the conquering greedy Turk, bloody scimitar in hand, who hacked his way through the country, finally battered at the walls of Argos. Demetrios Ypsilanti held the citadel with 300 henchmen against 30,000 Turks. For three days Hero Ypsilanti did not budge; thereafter his name was ranked in Greek legend with Leonidas of Thermopylae...
...that a band of Michigan settlers proudly named a rude village Ypsilanti. Last week some 7,000 of its citizens met to see the presentation of a marble bust of Demetrios Ypsilanti to the city by the Archontic Order of the Ahepa, Greek-American patriotic society, 3,500 visiting Ahepans paraded for two miles. Greek Aviator Nick Manteris, of Detroit, dropped a memorial wreath...
...unrivaled display of Americanism, much as a vulgar hostess will try to startle society with her flamboyant Persian or Turkish or Hawaiian ball. It would be easy to burlesque Superintendent McAndrew as a British "spy," an under cover agent for Buckingham Palace-even though he was born in Ypsilanti, Michigan...
...Ypsilanti, Mich...
...nearest competitors were Carl W. Forsythe, Ypsilanti State Normal (Mich.), and Edson Smith of Monmouth College...