Word: angoras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...abandoned the fez, the veil, the Arabic alphabet and polygamy by command of their progressive dictator, President Mustafa Kemal Pasha. It was Kemal himself, according to irate Cairo newspapers last week, who insulted the fez on Turkey's Independence Day at a banquet tendered by the President at Angora to the diplomatic corps...
Last week the Egyptian Government reacted by sending a sharp note to Angora, demanded an apology from Turkish Foreign Minister Dr. Tewfik Rushdi who used to be an accoucheur. Expert at handling both excited women and excited governments, Dr. Rushdi suavely replied that there had been no insult. "The banquet hall was somewhat overheated," he alibied, "and President Kemal merely invited His Excellency the Egyptian Minister to remove his fez for his own greater comfort...
...achievements while in Argentina included helping double the volume of U. S. trade with that country and the sale of two U. S.-built battleships to the Argentine Navy. In Paris Mr. & Mrs. Sherrill, who are childless, maintain a home. Both speak French fluently, the language of diplomacy at Angora.* He is a member of the Olympic Games committee, once (1887) was U. S. 100-yd. dash champion, originated the series of international interuniversity track meets in 1894, five years after he left New Haven. Mr. Sherrill is a trustee of New York University where he founded the fine arts...
Under the eye of watchful technicians, "Fuzzie," a gray Angora cat, is allowed to eat from a dish of pulverized fish in milk set upon delicate scales which are arranged to inscribe a curve representing the rate of consumption on a cylinder. If an auto horn is blown it is found that the blast "eliminates the cat's desire to eat," and a disturbance is consequently recorded in the hyperbole. Bausfield revealed that the hyperboles are of the catenary variety...
More cats than a critic could shake a pencil at were assembled in the rooms of New York's Maurel Gallery last week in one of the most amusing exhibitions of the season. Persian. Manx, Maltese, Siamese, Angora, tortoise-shell and tabby were all there in wood, pottery, glass, ivory, lead, bronze, marble, in oils, etchings, lithographs, water colors. Enthusiastic cat collectors and neighboring art galleries had loaned over 700 different representations of cats which, according to the Maurel Gallery's foreword, are one of the "eternal themes...