Word: turk
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Like an ignorant young Turk...
...harems of the Turk, from which a new womanhood is to walk into a larger destiny...
Everyone must look with disappointment upon Europe, Mr. Kerr continued, for the world has been disillusioned in its expectation of universal peace. France, in entering the Ruhr Valley, is about to paralyze the great industrial heart of Europe, which policy can only be accompanied by serious consequences. Furthermore the Turk is back, and Russia, although advanced in social theories, is still politically in the Middle Ages. The real gains from the war, gains in democratic thought, are very truly endangered, and their loss will affect the whole world. In answer to the question who is responsible for the chaotic state...
Popular opinion, generally the collective term for vague, often incorrect, knowledge, lumps Arabs and Turks together as one people. The same authoritative source is responsible for the traditional idea that the Arab is an unambitious, emotional nomed good as the inspiration for a "Sheik" and excuse for a Valentino. This popular opinion has prevailed to such an extent that the Arab, like the Turk, has been discounted as a ruler, in the case of Palestine for a recent example, in the belief that he has little aptitude for much beyond tent-life and pillaging...
...Turk this is a very pleasant prospect, but not so happy a one for the million and more exiles who are to be transported, nor for the lands where these peoples are to be settle. What if, at the end of two or three centuries the United States should decide the country was burdened with more of a certain race than it could support, and found it advisable to ship the offending citizens to some other continent? The plan might be successful if a massacre were the only possible alternative; the world may freeze first. Now, however, the problem...