Word: fez
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...these deeds were as nothing to his turning of the face of Turkey from East to West. The abolition of the veil, fez, the institution of polygamy meant the abandonment of the nation's Moslem past. The substitution of civil, criminal and commercial codes of law copied from Western models for the old sheria laws led to the abolition of special privileges for foreigners. The writing of a new language with a new alphabet made literacy a privilege of the masses rather than of priests and intellectuals. Turkey in 1938 is a westernized nation...
...opposed him, called him into executive session and asked him to get out of his office at once. He did so. John L. Lewis and Senator Joseph Guffey were reported to be set to test their political strength by forcing the immediate choice of Coal Commissioner Pleas (rhymes with fez) E. Greenlee of Indiana as chairman. This week the commission unanimously voted to defer selection of a permanent chairman until the President named Mr. Hosford's successor, elected Minority Commissioner Percy Tetlow, an Ohio coal miner, as temporary chairman. Meanwhile Franklin Roosevelt, already heckled by the TVA fuss...
...scale native uprisings and riots (TIME, Nov. 1) last week kept the Colonial Ministry in Paris on the qui vive. General Charles Nogues, the French Resident General of French Morocco, found it necessary to send troops for the first time in history into the Medina or Moslem quarter of Fez. Four hundred natives were arrested...
...Allah Akbar . . . God is great. . . . The Imam droned prayers, snatches from the Koran in Arabic, sitting cross-legged near his pulpit in a long green robe and a green fez (signifying that he has made the pilgrimage to Mecca). Squatting on prayer rugs and matting, his congregation droned with him, sometimes leaning forward, touching their Korans with their foreheads. For two hours one evening last week, these prayers sounded in a brick building in Brooklyn, only full-fledged Moslem mosque in the U. S. It was the eve of Ramadan, to Mohammedans the holiest and most rigorous month...
...Poduyevo, jobless Milovan Savovich, 30, who recently ate two Belgrade newspapers on a 20? bet, spied a dead, unskinned hare, wagered its peasant owner 60? he could eat all but the bones. He won. Asked what he ate for dessert, Savovich quickly snatched a fez from an astonished Moslem onlooker, swallowed it in pieces. Boasted he: "This is nothing. For 100 dinars ($2) I can eat a whole sheep skin...