Word: turkishly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Majesty was nightly the focus of gay revels, and on the morning of King George's funeral was in such condition that a masseur named Stoebs was hastily summoned from a fashionable West End Turkish bath. He worked over King Carol and produced some results but it was considered necessary to continue the massage in the royal limousine as it sped to Westminster Hall. In ensuing confusion Masseur Stoebs, in his white duck trousers and civilian coat from beneath which peeped a white masseur's sweater, fell into step after groggy and bloodshot-eyed Carol II behind...
...than an impression of the sense; they do not so much read as search for clues. But even nervous readers will find enough of those to lead them to an opinion: 1) Patchen's language dates him as definitely as a Eugenie bonnet: These withered times prepare no turkish-bath. . . . We can't get there by taxicab or sentiment. . . . Glory squashed in the hinge of a history. . . . 2) When lucidly emotional he writes an angry Letter to a Policeman in Kansas City. 3) When not making experimental "statements," he hymns the Revolution. 4) He knows when...
When he commanded U. S. naval forces in Turkish waters after the War, trim, erect Admiral Hepburn was as beloved in the Armenian compound at Smyrna as the image of President Wilson. When the Turks burned Smyrna he evacuated thousands of refugees. At three disarmament conferences in London and Geneva, his willingness to compromise was such that salty colleagues honored him and Admiral William Veazie Pratt with an accusation of "selling the navy out to the British." Equally criticized for his stand in the battle of mobile 6-inch v. heavy 8-inch guns, Admiral Hepburn swept his mobile Black...
...served up on a heaping platter in the House of Commons last week, steaming with honest emotion, thick with puzzlement, piquant with paradox and much like the late Diamond Jim Brady's favorite fish sauce which was so good that "if you poured some of it over a turkish towel, you could eat it all." Epicures for this sort of dish, Edward of Wales and the Soviet Ambassador sat down, elbow-to-elbow, just above the House of Commons' clock...
Often photographed with Dictator Kamal, his famed Adopted Daughters are all the daughters of Turkish Army & Navy officers who have met honorable deaths...