Word: fez
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clambered ashore over the slimy rocks, most of us almost entirely unclothed. My nightdress was torn, and a sailor gave me an Arab cloak which was wringing wet. One of the ship's officers still wore his fez, but he had no trousers...
Last week Kemal spoke less gargantuanly. First he opened Parliament. Then sonorously he recalled the triumphs of his regime-Sultan overthrown. Republic proclaimed, Calif overthrown, the Church disestablished, polygamy abolished, the fez abolished, women unveiled, and a new Capital built at ancient Angora. Finally the President reported progress in his incessant strivings to "Westernize Turkey." Proudly he declared that 12,000 teachers are now instructing Turks how to write and read their language in Occidental ABC's, though with the same phonetics as of yore...
Orthodox Mohammedans remembered the ominous adoption of hat in place of fez, the displacement of the Arabic alphabet in the Koran (TIME, July 23), saw in the icy visitation a manifestation of Allah's wrath, turned to the mosques for repentant prayers...
...widespread illiteracy of our population," he said shrewdly, "will make it far easier to introduce a new alphabet in Turkey than in a country where many people already know their letters. . . . Millions of Turks have abandoned the fez for the hat. . . . Thousands will find it even easier to adopt a new alphabet . . . [which] the millions will learn as their first...
Observers of the Young Turks' successful occidentalization of Turkey marveled, once more, at the docility of the Turkish masses, which have abandoned the fez, ceased to contract polygamous marriages, and now seem prepared to alter the fundamental rites of their religion-all this within ten years...