Word: turkishly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grimy little Greek freighter, the Maiotis, on which the fugitive Chicagoan fled from Greece to escape return to the United States to face trial for fraud, passed the Turkish port of Chanak, on the Straits, where the ship was inspected by local officials...
...Istanbul's law courts building. All Kemal's fire engines and all his men had not saved the archives holding all Turkey's legal documents from the time of the early Sultans to 1923. Muck were the old debts, the old judgments, the cash reserves. What Turkish firemen had not done, it appeared last week that Turkish melons...
...fire a cashier had two melons left over from lunch. He put them in the safe. The fire melted the iron, exploded the melons. They dissolved into a thick juice that covered what was beneath them. Last week salvagers found 36,000 Turkish pounds ($28,000) preserved in melon juice...
...Royal Indian Navy is a paper promise to His Majesty's nut-brown subjects, but from the potent Imperial East Indies Station went Vice-Admiral Dunbar-Nasmith who won his Victoria Cross by torpedoing and sinking from his submarine Ell precisely eleven Turkish ships...
...passed into the Blue Room to "receive." Instead of assembling on the stairs and marching counterclockwise (according to precedent) through the first floor, the guests started from the East Room, marched clockwise to the Blue Room. Head of the procession was Dean of the Diplomatic Corps Ahmet Muhtar, Turkish Ambassador (no lady); next major diplomat, Britain's Sir Ronald Lindsay (Lady Lindsay absent, ill). A second breach of precedent became evident as the diplomats toiled past. Instead of simply shaking hands like Mr. Coolidge or of saying "How do you do?" like Mr. & Mrs. Hoover, President and Mrs. Roosevelt...