Word: turkish
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...plain enough in the word itself-first corrupted from perruque to periwig, and then contracted for convenience to wig. Chouse, in the sense of to cheat, carries us back to the days of James First, when an impostor palmed himself off upon the people of London as a Turkish ambassador, or Chiaus. That the English learned some of their seamanship from the Italians is plain from the word mizzenmast (la mezzana), and the order avast! from basta! That the English taught the Italians to build railroads the traveller is informed when he hears il treno in Tuscany, and reads...
...American Girls College in Marsovan. Asia Minor, was burned recently by the Turkish authorities...
...most pleasing features of the entertainment is the dancing of Messrs. Hoppin, Stevens and Hoppin, while the Turkish ceremony in the fourth act is very amusing...
...only criticism we have to offer is on the music in the Turkish scene. It is wholly inconsistent and contrary to the spirit of the production. The ceremony is already farcical enough without deliberately making absurd horse-play out of it. The directors would have done well to omit the music altogether rather than to drag in songs which cheapen the scene...
...many additions made to it, and is far superior in every way to the former production. The ballet dance especially deserves praise. Messrs. T. Hoppin, Sevens and F. Hoppin kept splendidly together, and were very graceful, the orchestral accompaniment lending an additional rhythm to the dance. The Turkish ceremony at the end of the fourth act was also one of the features of the performance...