Word: turkish
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...foot of these steps the presidential car awaited. As the hoary president, hero of the Greece-Turkish Wars of 1897 and 1912-13, entered the automobile, a young man, one Zafioios Goussios, approached with apparent intent to serve a petition upon the chief executive. Policemen beamed paternally. The president was so democratic that anybody could approach him, thought they. Yes, indeed, all Athens was accustomed to seeing him walk the street, quite alone, and often a stranger would salute him and perhaps pass a few words about this and that...
Fatigued, hoarse, unnerved, Mustafa Kemal Pasha, iron President of the Turkish Republic, ended his 400,000-word speech to the Grand National Assembly in Angora, capital of the nation. Over a period of six days, actually speaking for 36 hours, 80 minutes, the great Ghazi traced the history of the Nationalist, movement through the founding of the republic, ending on an impassioned patriotic plea to Turkish youth...
...Cheshire Cheese was brought into existence some 250 years ago, not long after one Pasque Rossee, Greek servant to a retired Turkish coffee merchant, opened London's first Coffee House in 1652. It is recorded that Shakespeare frequented it often...
Last week the phrase received a new twist: Mustafa Kemal Pasha, president of the Turkish Republic, announced his intention of delivering, on October 15, 16, 17, 18, a 400,000-word* speech over the radio reviewing in detail the history of the Nationalist government...
...Friday,? Oct. 28, Turks must remain indoors for a national counting of heads?so ran the fiat of the Ghazi, Mustafa Kemal Pasha, President of the Turkish Republic...