Word: fez
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mustafa Kemal Pasha has taken the fez off Turkey's head, put on a hat instead; but even Dictator Kemal has not put a briar pipe in Turkey's mouth. Turks still smoke (at home or in coffee houses) the romantic, long-tubed, bubble-bubbling nargile...
...filled with astonishment and admiration over the great progress and development of Turkey. ... I see everywhere that same courage and imagination which distinguish such great men of today as Colonel Lindbergh and Henry Ford. . . . Take for example the changeover from the Arabic alphabet, the abolition of the fez and construction work in Angora. My visit in Angora ended with an inspection of the President's farm. There I found difficulties similar to those encountered in Arizona...
Does anyone doubt this? Curious goings on at Angora last week proved it again up to the Turkish scimitar's hilt. At no end of trouble and no small risk to himself Dictator Kemal, the apostle of "Europeanization" who made Turks take off the fez and put on the hat, provided his beloved country last week with what every real European republic has: a multi-party system, and its result, a crisis...
More than anything else the Turkish forces seemed to resent Kurdish attempts to revive the fez, long ago abolished in Turkey by Dictator Kemal. The Kurds, in the first flush of their revolt, transformed the hats of captured Turkish villagers into "fezzes" by cutting off the brims...
Round about Fez, Morocco, where the fez was invented and is still worn, thousands of drums began to beat monotonously one night last week, thousands of pipes to squeal, and a million Morocco Negroes to cavort and celebrate the 240th anniversary of the mass marriage from which they all sprang...