Word: turkishly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last haircut was more than a month ago at the expense of the Turkish Government. And I got this one in jail, too. I miss my cigars more than anything else. The doctor cut me down to two a day and I have been obeying orders...
...Little Entente. But things have changed in a twelvemonth. Spurred on by the menace of Hitlerism and the threat to the Balkan "succession states"* of a possible Habsburg restoration in Austria and Hungary, Boske Jeftitch has trotted up & down the Balkan corridor trying to organ ize a separate Jugoslav-Turkish-Bulgarian entente. The advantages of such an alliance to impoverished Bulgaria were obvious, but there was just one point on which Foreign Minister Jeftitch was insistent. Jugoslavia would join no pact unless the Bulgarian Government could prove its capacity to handle the noisy Macedonian minority that has made life hideous...
...Turkey's eunuchs. An admirer of Italian Fascism, he had borrowed Mussolini's bachelor tax idea. But when he set out to test it in the district of Smyrna, he chose to forget about Turkey's unique variety of bachelor, unknown in Italy. To the Turkish tax collectors, the eunuchs were neither women nor married men; hence, they were bachelors liable to the tax. Other men could escape the levy by means of a hasty marriage to one of Turkey's still ample supply of women. But the poverty-stricken eunuchs could neither marry...
Rhodes and 13 other islands nestling against the Turkish coast have been acknowledged Italian territory since the Lausanne Conference of 1923, exactly 400 years after Turkey captured Rhodes from the Knights of St. John, whose survivors became the Knights of Malta. Though Italy seized them from Turkey by force of arms, it had nothing whatever to do with the World War. The islands were prize booty from the half-forgotten Turkish-Italian...
...parting gesture from the republic of Turkey, Mr. Insull had an abscess on his thumb lanced by a jail doctor, was given a health examination and pronounced able to travel. The last appeal of his attorneys was turned down. At 6 one evening six Turkish guards took him from the House of Detention and drove him down to the waterfront in a taxi. Resigned, he went aboard the small steamer Adana and waved good-by to his lawyers on the wharf, reassuring them that they would be paid for their services. During the night the steamer crossed...