Word: fez
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...Fez. Egypt boiled with indignation last week at a Turkish insult to the fez, favorite headgear of Egypt's fat King Fuad. Years ago Turks 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...
Flush with champagne & cognac, as he always is at the close of a dinner, President Kemal began to stare at the Egyptian Minister's red fez. Upon Kemal the effect was that of a red rag on a bull. He ripped out something in Turkish and the Egyptian Minister, flushing as red as his fez, took it off, later sent details of the affront to fat King Fuad...
...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...
...Star-Spangled Banner," came the parade of athletes. First in the parade were the Greeks; then in alphabetical order, came the Argentines, in green coats and white trousers, the Australians, in white suits and sun helmets, the Canadians, in bright red coats, and a single Egyptian, wearing a red fez and carrying a flag. The Germans paused beside the "tribune of honor'' where Vice President Curtis was sitting, to shout "Hoch!" French athletes politely removed their straw hats. The U. S. team of 350, last in line, was big enough to make a complete circle around the infield. When...
Turks, who threw away fez and veil at President Mustafa Kemal's command, set about achieving last week that much more difficult Western reform, a balanced budget...