Word: angoras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...business suit out of deference to the Commissar's proletarianism, emerged through a cordon of vigilant police with a warm greeting. Also present was Ahmet Muhtar, Turkish Ambassador, who two days later made up for the parties Comrade Litvinoff had missed when he deferred his trip to Angora (TIME, Nov. 6) by a sumptuous banquet in his honor. Footmen in red livery and gold buttons served caviar and champagne, there were crimson roses on the dinner table to honor the Soviet visitors, the turkey was called "Dindoneau a la Moskva" and Mmes Borah and Pittman, whose Senator husbands were...
...Minister Bubnov. All three big Reds brought their wives. They sailed up the Golden Horn escorted by a squadron of the Red Fleet, disembarked amid thunderous salutes at Istanbul (once Constantinople) and went to sleep in a luxurious Wagon-Lit which carried them 300 mi. up to Ankara (once Angora), the hill-surrounded capital which President Kemal has built at a cost of more than $75,000,000. He never felt safe at Istanbul, too easily menaced by the Great Powers' war boats...
...German-and changed it in 1919 for post-War reasons.) After a term of editing the English Review which he had founded in 1908, Ford retired to a tumbledown country cottage to live by writing and raising vegetables. He acquired a goat, a drake, a rook, a Blue Angora cat, and eventually two very large sows. In spite of his friendship with John Galsworthy and his admiration for George Moore, England finally became too depressing; he expatriated himself to Paris. There, with Ernest Hemingway as his sanest subeditor, the encouragement of Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein, and with the backing...
...Lang-True Animal Stories. Advertising Junket, this program lately completed a contest in which the maximum number of three-letter words was to be formed from "Junket Works Magic With Milk." Prizes: Scotch terrier or $50, wire-haired terrier or $35, angora kitten or $25, white canary or $10, pair of guppies (fish), 50 white china elephants. An animal roars at the beginning of the program. There is a secret society, with pin, called the H. A. H. (Happy Animal Helpers...
Centre of the mumbo-jumbo belt is green Brusa where orthodoxy flared. It lies across the Sea of Marmora from Istanbul (Constantinople). It was the first Ottoman capital and might have been the capital of the Turkish Republic instead of white-cement, Babbittized Angora, had it not been too near...