Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...while back. She's married to a grocery agent now . . . funny, she should marry a drummer, huh?" The fireman's band played the tune of a bugle-call, "Soupy, soupy, soupy, without a single bean. . . ." Someone was saying: ". . . And we began to think the hard tack was turkey...
...condition of U. S. cemeteries abroad, discussed disarmament. Mr. & Mrs. Michael Gallagher, Cleveland friends of the Coolidges, dropped in on a motor tour and the President told them he was sorry the flooded, muddy condition of "the location I use" in Grace Coolidge Creek prevented him from returning their turkey of last Thanksgiving with a trout dinner. Other-visitors included officials of the Post Office Department and Department of the Treasury, to report on a nationwide survey of proposed sites for Federal buildings; a Kansas Congressman; a delegation of postmasters...
...that it was adulterated and caused blindness, and also because they refused to buy it, the concession was withdrawn. The new move is an attempt to provide the people with "pure stuff" at popular prices.- Robbers. From the gaunt heights of wild Kurdistan, a mountainous district lying partly in Turkey and partly in Iraq, a bold band of brigands swooped down upon the lowland villages, terrorizing the inhabitants. Then, gathering up their loot the lusty robbers staggered back into their impregnable fastnesses. In Angora the authorities fumed, impotent...
Since no issue immediately affecting Turkey loomed last week, Tewfik Rushdi Bey consented to chat informatively about the progress of Dictator Mustafa Kemal Pasha's regime. Said...
...have no enemies. . . . We really want peace. . . . Hard work and not too much talk is the program of Turkey as she arrives at what may be called the halfway point of our present development...