Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this be true, if the U. S. Senate did not ratify the Lausanne Treaty because the U. S. mis judges the nature of Young Turkey, what are some facts on which a different judgment may some day be formed? Facts...
...Polygamy has been slowly dying out in Turkey for more than a century, because of the inability of modern Turkish husbands to support plural wives in the style and under the economic conditions of today. An analagous case is the decrease in the amount of food on Occidental tables since Colonial times of heavy eating when eggs were 4? a dozen instead 49?, and other food prices were proportionate...
...Post-War Turkey does not em brace those large non-Turkish areas* in which the shortsighted Sultanate shed so much blood to put down the revolts of subject peoples...
...Young Turkey is compact, and the dictature of Mustafa Kemal, the Ghazi ("The Victorious"), is absolute over such territory as is left. There is not the occasion for internal strife and wholesale massacre that there once was. ¶ Though the leopard cannot change its spots, the Young Turks naturally feel less ferocity than formerly toward those few Armenians, Greeks and Jews who are now trading quietly in Turkey and paying the present high taxes...
...There is many a story which people like to tell to show that I am a harum-scarum princess. Here are some of them. Long before such things were socially approved, I stepped out into the middle of a ballroom, danced a solo turkey trot, smoked a cigaret. Ladies gasped; I had fun. One afternoon a woman was telling several of us about the miserable condition of her health. Suddenly I asked her: 'Have you ever tried standing on your head? ... It acts like a charm.' I borrowed a safety pin, fastened the hem of my skirt between...