Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Premier Raymond Poincare and his Ministers are turkey-gobblers, the laughingstock of the universe, the shame of France...
...enclosed in a slot-machine. Drop a quarter in the slot, the camera starts to work, out comes a strip of eight sepia photographs of the quarter-dropper, all in eight minutes. Photomaton, Inc. is backed by a syndicate of such famed figures as onetime (1913-16) Ambassador to Turkey Henry Morgenthau, President Harbord of the Radio Corp., John T. Underwood (typewriters) and onetime Vice President Raymond B. Small of the Postum Cereal Co. It has given every evidence of being a proverbial El Dorado to its investors. Major General Davis, soon-to-be Photomaton president, was born in Lancaster...
...Phidias. Greece then was under Ottoman dominion. Being a Christian, Lord Elgin found himself obstructed at every turn. His artist companions were forbidden approach to the ruins, let alone entrance. Later Great Britain's arms prevailed over France, and Egypt (hitherto under French dominion) was dealt to Turkey. So enthusiastic waxed the Ottomans over this token of good will, that Lord Elgin was told to go ahead and make all the drawings, paintings, investigations he liked and to take away with him any stones that appeared to be of interest...
...Swedish locomotive, trim and bright, puffed forth from the Turkish Capital at Angora last week, and drew a salon car in which rode the great Ismet Pasha swiftly along 240 miles of new roadbed, linking Angora with the hinterland of Asiatic Turkey...
Last week Rear Admiral Bristol said, reassuringly, at Constantinople, as he took the Simplon Orient Express for Paris: "Turkey has now become a robust nation with no fear of her most promising future...