Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...worship at the Metropolitan Methodist Episcopal Church,* where Bishop William F. McDowell preached. Upon their return, the five lunched lightly. Then the President napped while the rest of the party went to see Ethel Barrymore in The Constant Wife. At 7 p. m., what with a 24-pound turkey, the gift of Governor Sam A. Baker of Missouri, the climactic business of the day began. And then the little party of sons and daughters of Massachusetts and Vermont chatted through the evening...
...Judge Adolph A. Hoehling granted Mr. Roberts' motion after 20 minutes' cogitation, thereby giving the prosecution its first victory. So the jury was "locked up" in a stuffy courthouse dormitory which had only one washstand. On Thanksgiving Day they marched, two by two, under guard, to a turkey dinner...
Reviving interest in the problems of war and peace has recently brought forth an elaborately documented attempt to upset the theory of German War guilt*; and the strife-pregnant though thus far peaceable post-War development of Turkey and Egypt has just been set forth by the much heeded oracle of the London Westminster Gazette...
...Russia's desire for the Bosphorus was the root of all the trouble," maintained Professor Barnes. "This strait, her only outlet to the Mediterranean Sea, was owned by Turkey, and for three years Russian played fast and loose with Turkey, with her eye on the strait. Turkey saw through the device, and Russia turned to stirring up the Balkan States against the Ottomans. The Balkan War ended this plan, and the Czar saw that only in a general European War could his ambitions...
...Russian designs on Turkey were the spring of all the dissension and the events leading up to war were all of her engineering. The guilt is Russia's and France's and Serbia...