Word: turk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York Sun that he "never felt better." By the time he reached police headquarters he complained of being a sick old man who would die in jail. He was placed under guard in the Logothetopoulos Clinic. Most interested in his arrest was a 30-year-old Turk named Mrs. Vouyndjoglou who used to accompany him to Athens parties...
None of this pleased Hitler. Last week the first repercussion to the scene at the landing field came with a sharp protest from Hitler to Dollfuss. Without delay Dollfuss snapped back that Hitler's man would do well to apologize for the "Turk"' speech in Vienna before Austria could reconsider its brusqueness to him. Police caught up with Frank and friends, busy on a haranguing tour of Austrian Nazi groups. They were told to leave Austria "rapidly." Then Dollfuss ordered 100 other German Nazis deported. He had already had 2,380 Austrian Nazis arrested for bombarding the Heimwehr...
...from unemployed last week was the prince of U. S. bar-makers: James ("Jimmy") Mont, 29, a slim, Manhattanized Turk. He was an unsuccessful interior decorator until in June, 1932, he got the idea of using fancy bars as a wedge to redecorate people's apartments. He would sell a bar that looked fine in his Modern Salon Co.'s Manhattan showroom but looked like a fair carrousel in the customer's apartment. Then Mont would redecorate the room to match the bar, the whole apartment to match the room. He made more ornate bars, got bigger...
...nonman. Confusion, timidly. ("See the" )whispers("nomads")Turkess . . . (stolid hugely faces poke from rags & bags: sullen squat drearily scratching lost ghosts. Men. Grunt nonmen. Their pyramid-of fear, surfaced with asquirm naked babies-does not move. None have any shoes but some are wearing instead baskets, i is smoking). Turk drops coinlesses, a machine spews quai-tickets. Now (baggageladen 2)3 comrades, through despair timidly through confusion through perhaps wearily and through (you cannot turn the wheels of) irrevocable un, move . . . beneath curving steel-and-glass nonroof now finding (asleep, forever-fully)tattered train...
...soiree, Dr. Prince realized that he was stumped, could not talk to the Albanian Minister in Albanian. Casually they chatted in Turkish. Later the Albanian Minister said with difficulty to a U. S. matron in Albanian English: "What a strange you Americans are! What a silly! You hire a Turk to be your Minister to Jugoslavia! To me it is a sorry but I could not understand Americans...