Word: turk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Westerners, whose religious wars lie centuries behind them, could not easily understand how Turks felt last week. Kemal's ventilation had swept away the Turk's fez, his extra wives, his remaining wife's veil, and now his church service. Last week, for the first time in history, Turks of Istanbul, where the reform was inaugurated, understood what the priests were saying. But they found it hard to believe it was the same thing as the Arabic gibberish that had had 13 centuries of mumbo-jumbo behind...
Under a new income tax law signed by the President, "Turkish wage earners become the most heavily taxed in the world." according to Istanbul papers. Every Turk, no matter how minute his income, must pay at least 30% to the State. Richest Turks will get off easier than richest Englishmen who are taxed out of half their income. In Turkey, under the new law. "incomes over $300 per month shall be taxed...
...with desks and elaborate exhibits made by nimble-fingered children. Each of the Manhattan apartment-dwellers who filed through the building was handed a little pamphlet warning him that to preserve the country's wild flowers he must never pick pink Lady's Slipper, Indian Moccasin, Liverleaf, Turk's-cap lily, Lady's Tresses, Rattlesnake Plantain. In moderation the Garden Club allows the picking of Grass of Parnassus, New Jersey Tea, Bluets, Clammy Azalea, Mad-Dog Skullcap and Virgin's Bower. If the urge to pick simply overpowers a city-dweller, the Garden Club begs...
When he took his girls to London theatres he "often heard hisses about a Turk or an American Mormon being in the house." Highest spot of the summer's adventures was when he was almost caught after lights telling ghost-stories to eight of his bevy in one of their rooms (out of bounds). When Chaperone Lulu knocked on the door Walter hid under the bed. Chaperone Lulu suspected nothing, the girls kept straight faces till "one of Miss Lulu's respectable feet kicked an earthenware object under the bed. There was a musical 'ping,' immediately...
Hard, pragmatic Dictator Kemal passed the petition to Angora officials who ignored it, but a rich & pious Turk bestowed on Petitioner Ali a disused house on Turkey's famed Golden Horn (a dirty stretch of water flanked by palaces and woods). Last week Mehmed Ali Bey scratched his woolly poll and complained to a U. S. correspondent: "Neither I nor my wife nor my children can find good jobs in Turkey. Sure we've got jobs, but they are no good. I even had to sell my dictionary. My sons are digging sewers. My daughters are cooks...