Word: turk
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Time was, and not many years ago, when a subject of the Sultan was known as the "unspeakable Turk," a phrase coined by Thomas Carlyle and afterwards much used in political parlance...
...time will come, later, when any Turk can wear any hat he chooses or none!" said Tewfik Rushdi Bey with emphasis "But the fez was a symbol and had to be abolished because it represented a psychological state that was wrong...
England and France, given former Turk lands in Mesopotamia, Palestine, and Syria, have pushed the frontiers of empires further around the Southeastern shores of the Mediterranean. Italy, intent on the Trentino and Trieste in 1919, received little in addition to disappointing Tripoli except the control of Fuime on the Adriatic. Furthermore the appearance of Roumania and Jugo-Slavia as something more than the petty Balkan princedoms of Moldavia--Wallachia and Serbia gave her rivals more serious in many ways than Austria-Hungary had been. So the Peace of Versailles brought no peace to the Near East. Italy's interests traditionally...
When the Young Turk Party seized the Government (1922) and (1923) transferred the Turkish Capital to Angora in Asia Minor, out of range of Allied warships, Admiral Bristol immediately sensed that the new regime of President-Dictator Mustafa Kemal Pasha was healthy, and, in any case, unshakable. While the U. S. Department of State was beginning to wonder whether it would recognize the Young Turk Government, Admiral Bristol strode into the office of Mustafa Kemal Pasha, and two fighting men shook hands (1924). Up to that time no Allied representative had called on Kemal. Soon or late, all took...
Madame Butterfly, The Marriage of Figaro, are well known. The Abduction From the Harem is not. The story is simple: A Spanish maid kidnaped by pirates and sold to a Turk, almost rescued by her lover, is finally released from the harem through the courtesy of the speakable Turk. The music is Mozartean, was rendered with grace and spontaneity by the cast which excelled as a ombination rather than individually. The im- pression of critics was that the group performed well, that opera in English could be sung intelligibly, that the University of Rochester maintained an advanced school of music...