Word: turkish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cyril's father, Prince Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, elected Prince of Bulgaria in 1887, became Tsar of Bulgaria in 1909 when the country declared its independence of Turkish rule...
Probably your Chinese and your Turkish and your German are about like mine-but I thought you might be interested in seeing how some of these stories look...
...foresight, taught him two trades (sword-making and ornamental-leather work), and gave him three dogs, a colt and a pet bear. Thus schooled, George Papashvily, penniless and wearing a karakul hat, arrived in New York, having traveled steerage on a Greek freighter. "lit your position, frankly," said a Turkish shipmate, "I would kill myself." "My God," said the man in the employment office. "A swordpointer!" He got George a job as a dishwasher...
...habit: i) chew 5? worth of gentian root (or camomile blossoms) every time the craving strikes; 2) take ½ teaspoonful each of Rochelle salts and cream of tartar before breakfast; 3) cut out highly seasoned foods and stimulating drinks; 4) shun all smokers and smoke-filled rooms; 5) take Turkish baths; 6) think of something else. But U.S. cigaret smokers, finding gentian root even more awkward to buy than fags, went right on smoking Strange Fruit, or whatever they were called...
Died. Mehmet Munir Ertegun, 61, reserved, brush-mustachioed Turkish Ambassador to the U.S., dean of Washington's Diplomatic Corps, onetime Ambassador to the Court of St. James's and to France, expert on Turkish law; of a heart attack; in Washington...