Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...permits a man four wives, but many a Turk has beer guilty of concubinal cupidity and has excessively multiplied that number Nevertheless, Turks have for long taken pride in pointing fingers oi scorn at the prostitution of worrier in the Occident, which was a thing unknown to polygamous, Turkish Turkey...
...Olympic (White Star) ? Henry Morgenthau, Chairman of the Greek Refugee Settlement Commission of the League of Nations, onetime U. S. Ambassador to Turkey; Lord Southborough, onetime Civil Lord of the British Admiralty, who has been in the U. S. making arrangements for the visit of the Prince of Wales in September...
...Italy on Austria, May 23, 1915; Bulgaria on Serbia, Oct 14, 1915; Britain on Bulgaria, Oct. 15, 1915; Italy on Bulgaria, Oct. 19, 1914; Germany on Portugal, Mar. 9, 1916; Italy on Germany, Aug. 27, 1916; Rumania on Austria-Hungary, Aug. 27, 1916; Germany on Rumania, Aug. 29, 1916; Turkey on Rumania Aug. 30, 1916; Bulgaria on Rumania, Sept. 1, 1916; Greece (Provisional Govern- ment) on Germany and Bulgaria, Nov. 23, 1916; U. S. on Germany, Apr. 6, 1917; U. S. on Austria-Hungary, Dec. 7, 1917. *The Legion Weekly had written to the ex-Kaiser and had addressed...
...absolutely no immigrants came. The Cleveland of the United American Line brought the nearest thing of the kind, "several thousand birds, a tapir, a blue-faced mandrill, other monkeys, some squirrels and three makis . . . funny-looking animals which are neither raccoons nor monkeys and which make sounds like a turkey...
...much is known of the early Ghegs and Tosks (Albanians) except that their country was administered by Turkey from 1431 to 1912. When independence from the Turk was proclaimed, Albania became a pawn in the Balkan game, coveted alike by Austria, Serbia, Greece and Italy. During the War, first the Austrians overran the country; then the Italians who proclaimed a Protectorate over it. In 1920, when Premier Giolitti was in power, the Albanians kicked the Italians out-which insult the "Ities" (not then being Fascisti) swallowed with marked humility. Albanian independence for the second time was established...