Word: turkishly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Entrance of the Guests into the Wartburg, "Tannhauser" Wagner *Overture to "Sakuntala" Goldmark *Turkish March Mozart *"Espana," Rhapsody Chabrier *Suite from the Ballet "Nutcracker" Tchaikovsky Walther's Prize Song from "Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg Wagner *Divertissement Ibert *Roses from the South," Waltzes Strauss *Malaguena Lecuona *Strike Up the Band" Gershwin...
Dapper President Kamal Atatürk, "Father of the Turks," definitely learned last week that a life of ease on a sumptuous superyacht awaited him whenever he felt inclined to leave his pink-tinted villa on the hill above Ankara, and take to Turkish waters. Before the star & crescent could be raised over President-Dictator Kamal Atatürk's gift from his people, however, a diplomatic snarl between the U. S., Germany and Turkey had to be untangled...
...Turks explicitly said the ship would be used only as a floating palace for their beloved "Father," the sale to Turkey was sanctioned, was even approved by the U. S. State Department. The Nazis rather crudely complicated things when a court order temporarily restrained the boat from passing into Turkish hands, but last week the Savarona was ready to leave Hamburg for her new home port, Istanbul...
...Passos saw famine and typhus in the Near East, talked over Bolshevik atrocities with Russian refugees, Turkish atrocities with Greeks and Armenians, English duplicity with Arabs. In Spain he was startled to hear a mountain peasant exclaim, "America is the world of the future." In Arabia a native told him owlishly that the English "were united and used their guns only to shoot strangers, while the Arabs were always squabbling among themselves and were very nice to strangers." Hating high-flown sentiments in all forms (he read Juvenal on the way to Damascus, did not like it because "I smell...
...Noli, is a Harvard classmate (1912) of Humorist Robert Benchley, Steelman Hugh Gaddis, Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy, Kermit Roosevelt. He is undoubtedly the only man who was ever, at the same time, a Harvard undergraduate, an able shotputter, an Orthodox bishop aged 19; for Fan Noli, on leaving his Turkish-ruled native land, took pains to organize the church in the U. S., getting himself named its bishop before matriculating at Harvard...