Word: turkishly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have these triumphs celebrated in Yildiz, for centuries the most glamorous and sinister harem in the Ottoman Empire, was the neat idea of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk ("Chief Turk"), the progressive Dictator who put Turkish men in derby hats...
Last week incorrigible male correspondents distressed the feminists on whom they were reporting by turning up a precise account of what harem life in Yildiz was actually like under Abdul Hamid, written by Philadelphia-born Princess Djavidan Hanum* who married Khedive Abbas Hilmi II and knew Turkish royal harems as few non-Turks ever have...
...persons still remember those cloudy days before the World War, when in common parlance it was customary to refer to the late and unlamented Turkish Empire as the "sick man of Europe." Today Europe reports that she has another sick man. His death will be much more in the nature of tragedy for a watching world than was the unheralded demise of the Turkish Empire. This wasted invalid, the League of Nations, at whose bedside the faithful Marianno stands with a melancholy smile and a hypodermic needle, is that child born so auspiciously in 1919 with racking labor pains...
...school in the Caucasus he learned that no Mohammedan could enter the Russia's Imperial Naval Academy. His passionate desire to understand the difference between the Moslem and Christian worlds won him two doctorates, taught him to speak, in addition to his native Turkish, Russian, Persian, German, French, English. Before going to Detroit he had been curator of Oriental art at National museums in Vienna and Istanbul. In 1931 he, like Dr. Pope, went to work on the second great exhibition of Persian art in London...
Venizelos changed all that. Born on Crete, equipped with an Athens law degree, he soon developed an extraordinary flair for leadership, a marvelous sense of situation, a nearly perfect aim with a revolver and one of the greatest poker faces in Europe. Crete was then still Turkish. Venizelos rapidly led two revolts, won Cretan autonomy, the first step toward union with Greece. The Greek Crown sent a chuckleheaded prince as Commissioner to Crete. With another revolt, Venizelos kicked him out because the prince looked on Cretans as a subject race. His local fame as a Cretan established. Venizelos moved...