Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Michigan to contribute to Mr. Ford's appetite for country tunes and "racy" U. S. music. Fiddler Dunham is an old man; his fingers are gnarled from making snowshoes; his white mustache is so long that he tucks it under his fiddle before he plays. He struck up "Turkey in the Straw." Mr. Ford snapped his fingers, knocked his knees together, and twiddled his foot on the floor. A reporter stepped forward...
...Moines, a small but red-eyed turkey gobbler was mated with a large chicken. Eggs were laid, hatched, and a barnyard hybrid stepped forth which the breeder, one Roy Beck, called a turken. "Its meat combines the delicacy of chicken with the flavor of turkey." "Turkens will bring 70c to 80c a pound next November," said Breeder Beck...
Little anxiety for the personal safety and comfort of former Sultan Mohammed VI of Turkey was felt in 1922, when eluding the Kemalists he fled from Constaninople aboard a British warship, and the Grand National Assembly of Turkey turned his realm into the republic of which Mustapha Kemal Pasha is now president...
Observers recalled that all male members of the former Imperial House of Osman have been expelled from Turkey, including even Prince Abdul Medjid, whom the Kemalists suffered to act as Caliph from 1922 to 1924. At present over 250 members of this once omnipotent family are said to be living an all but hand-to-mouth existence. A few, of course, have capitalized the lure of royalty at Paris, but for the most part they are said to make their living in such pursuits as "hawking rugs along the Riviera . . . peddling fruits and vegetables . . . driving taxicabs...
...great sacrifice for peace when it gives the support which is being proposed. We can now go before the Court with a dispute if the other party agrees. The 48 other States, have been kind enough to arrange that for us, as they did for Germany and Russia and Turkey. But it is not being suggested that we agree to use the Court. It is suggested only that we agree to help to maintain it, that we agree to pay some $40,000 a year to help to pay its bills. We should gain the privilege of participating more fully...