Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Some of the characterizations can be described by no other word than "immense" in its slangiest sense. Andrew Jackson, rest his democratic soul, is an "old turkey cock, on a forest rock" and later on "his face was a talon, his hands were talons." You do not need to collect postage stamps to know that Andrew Jackson did look like that. Jezebel puts on her various guards and jewels and "stopped the honest prophets as they marched upon their...
...Senator Borah, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, called at the White House and agreed with the President to bring up the Lausanne Treaty with Turkey for ratification. It is certain to provoke a bitter debate because it abolishes extraterritorial rights for citizens of the U. S. in Turkey. The treaty has been pending in the Senate for over a year...
...called "last true Calif," the deposed Sultan of Turkey, Mohammed VI, died recently in Italy (TIME...
Died. Mohammed VI, Sultan of Turkey 1918-22; at San Remo, Italy, of heart disease...
...American dependencies, the Canal Zone, Hawaii, the Philippines, and Porto Rico have been represented by nine schools. And 24 schools represent nine foreign countries, including Canada, Cuba, England, France, Norway, Sweden, Spain, Switzerland, and Turkey...