Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...annual race of handsome gobblers to the White House Thanksgiving dinner table, the first to arrive was a wild turkey which had voluntarily taken up a sedentary life with a tame flock in Pondera County, Mont. As a reward the County Turkey Growers' Association gave him a free ride to the White House, but on the trip he lost two of his 22 pounds from excitement...
...Angora, President Mustafa Kemal of the Turkish Republic continued his policy of Europeanizing Turkey by holding a dinner-dance in Occidental style. He shattered tradition by insisting that all the women present should remove their veils and join in an old-time Turkish dance with the men. Previously such a proceeding would have been considered sacrilegious, especially as many non-Turks of the foreign diplomatic corps were present. So great is the ascendancy of Mustafa Kemal at present, however, that all the members of his Cabinet and their wives, as well as the leaders of Young Turk society, conformed docilely...
...first man was born, the day on which he entered paradise, the day of his expulsion, his repentance, his death, and of mankind's future resurrection. Since the Turks have been abstaining from labor on Friday, the Jews on Saturday and the Christians on Sunday, employers in Turkey have long been resigned to only a four-day full-labor week. It is expected that the Kemalists, haying coerced their own people, will also attempt to fuse the Jews into conformity with the Christian Sunday...
...Turkey is not yet a Western nation. In spite of the reforms in dress and other customs which have been forced upon that land, it remains true to its tradition, the tradition of the East. Only recently a new proof of this was brought to light when some Turkish schoolchildren put a tack in the teacher's chair. Of course, they had been led by an infiltration of western ideas to believe that such a joke would so pain the teacher as to amuse the class. They reckoned not upon the Oriental influences that were to work upon that tack...
...conversion was most opportune. It materially aided Ferdinand in securing his recognition by Russia, Turkey and the Powers as "Prince of Bulgaria." Up to that time, although Ferdinand was a nephew of Albert, Prince Consort of Victoria, and a grandson of King Louis Philippe, and had been called to the Bulgarian throne by the Grand Sobranye of Bulgaria on the abdication of Prince Alexander in 1886, he was freely styled "usurper" by his enemies...