Word: turk
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...America is rapidly becoming the worst crime center of the world. It has already the greatest number of divorce cases. The only difference between a Turk and an American is that the former has his wives as a team and the latter has his as a tandem. $3,000,000,000 is annually stolen in the United States, and 15,000 deaths occur every year through murders and homicides. One of the most discouraging facts is that the great majority of the most desperate criminals are under 22 years old. This is all a result of animal philosophy...
...indifference, has resulted in the common misconceptions about India, and usual failure to appreciate true values in Indian affairs, according to Mr. Hossain. "The average American's idea of India is a place where elephants roam about and fortune-tellers line the streets; just as his idea of a Turk is a person who is constantly either wallowing in polygamy, or cutting the throats of Christians...
...first two children. On the third day, now 60 years ago, a boy was born and a priest named Yarotheos (old god) on account of his miraculous powers baptized him, saying: "I baptize, thee Eleutherios (Liberty), for thou shalt deliver our long suffering Crete from the tyranny of the Turk...
Thus the dry era, put into force by the Turk Nationalists, was also ended by them; although the Koran expressly forbids alcoholic stimulant...
...Slavia. Premier Ismet Pasha of Turkey also proffered his felicitations. Henry Morgenthau, head of the International Loan Commission for the Succor of Greek Refugees, an ex-U. S. Ambassador to Turkey, likewise congratulated M. Venizelos. Speaking at a dinner in Athens, Mr. Morgenthau recalled his efforts to deter the Turks from "massacring Christians;" he deplored the fact that Turkey had been put in the position to win the Anatolian War (1921-22) by the transfer of French and Italian arms; he recounted his efforts in Britain at the time of the sack of Smyrna (1922) "to arouse public opinion...