Word: turkishly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Toothsome young lambs were slaughtered by the hundreds in Ankara last week and their fresh meat sizzled on a thousand skewers as banquet followed boisterous banquet. Champagne-loving Turkish Dictator Mustafa Kemal Pasha, high-strung and quick as a panther, was doing his best to honor the majestic Persian Dictator who styles himself the King of Kings and whose age of some 60 years is concealed by his upright military bearing, betrayed by a certain slowness of speech and gesture...
...Persia sped a motorcade with Riza Shah Pahlevi. onetime Cossack trooper, riding as King of Kings in a limousine upholstered in champagne-colored silk with gold and jeweled Persian crowns in bas-relief upon each door. Turkish artillery honored His Majesty at the frontier with a salute from enlightened President Mustafa Kemal Pasha's best European cannon...
...Dictator Kemal after he smashed the Sultanate, perspiring Turks worked furiously to lay a brand new street to the Persian Embassy so that the King of Kings would not be too severely jounced. The last stages of his journey sped him up the Black Sea on a spruce Turkish battle cruiser to Istanbul, then by train to the Turkish capital. Near Easterners quivered with excitement at palavers scheduled for this week, as the two swarthy strong men gripped hands in Ankara, the King of Kings gorgeous in a Persian uniform blazing with jeweled orders. Dictator Kemal sleek-tailed...
...Suritz moved from Kabul to Ankara where he has been Soviet Ambassador to Turkey for the past eleven years. Lodged in a super-modernistic Soviet Embassy with soaring porches like the wings of an airplane. Comrade Suritz proceeded to give the kind of parties which appeal to champagne-swizzline; Turkish Dictator Mustafa Kemal Pasha...
...capitalistic industry. Only Sir Basil Zaharoff, doddering brokenly in his wheel chair, seems to give any outward evidence of disillusionment. That may be only because he gambled $20,000,000 of his personal fortune on the only war in which he ever took emotional sides--the Greco-Turkish War in 1921--and lost...