Word: turkishly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There is nothing patronizing in Author Brown's account of mid-century interior decorating, when a Turkish Cozy Corner stood in every up-to-date parlor, when piano legs had wide, baby-blue sashes tied to them. Although he occasionally apologizes for the crudities of the day, his book gives the impression that he found the folding bed an impressive contribution to progress, horse cars an entirely satisfactory means of transportation...
...long, the difficulties of water, food and supplies almost twice as great. It is against him that Ethiopians have their best chance of a counterattack into Italian territory. Among the Ethiopian commanders opposing General Graziani last week is one of the most picturesque characters in the country, the former Turkish General Wehib Pasha...
...Glad to see you here in Harar. If you visit me later at advance headquarters, bring plenty of medicine for yourself. You will have fever." Thus the New York Times's Laurence Stallings was greeted by His Excellency Wehib Pasha ("Old Eagle Beak"), the big-boned Turkish General (retired) whom small-boned Emperor Haile Selassie has hired as Chief-of-Staff on Ethiopia's southeastern front...
...luncheon with a good section of the League of Nations Assembly at the invitation of its President Eduard Benes, perpetual Foreign Minister of Czechoslovakia. Among the 500 people whom smart little Dr. Benes welcomed with a polite speech at the hotel des Bergues were: the Belgian Foreign Minister, the Turkish Foreign Minister, the Greek Foreign Minister, the Greek Minister to France, the President of the Norwegian Storting, the Ethiopian Delegate to the League and the indomitable Catholic mother of Austria's Prince Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg...
...those of dispersion, "striking at the materials . . . avoiding engagements with the men," substituting for battle "a creeping paralysis produced by an intangible ubiquity." Lawrence's unorthodox maneuvers gave the tribes the type of activity for which they were best fitted. He and Feisal succeeded in delaying, blocking, obstructing Turkish action without experiencing serious losses, keeping Turkish attention focussed on the task of maintaining supplies and communications intact. And all the while the Arab revolt was gaining momentum...