Word: turkishly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...government expense to Boston, and, according to Brown, brought back a large supply of "hair tonic for the boys." Boston was too petty for the imaginative Mr. Brown; he went off for a pleasant little jaunt to Paris on government funds and almost succeeded in bringing back a Turkish dancer. In between times he made trips to Washington to take liquor to his uncle, the late Mr. Doak, Secretary of Labor, "who had heart disease...
Back in Moscow with elegant collections of capitalist evening gowns last week were the wives of the three Soviet delegates who went to Ankara for the tenth birthday of the Turkish Republic (TIME...
Waiting at the dock was svelte, Paris-gowned Mme Suritz, spouse of the Soviet Ambassador to Turkey. She had wired to Moscow well in advance for the more important measurements of the Soviet Cinderellas. ordered ball gowns likely to please Turkish Dictator Mustafa Kemal Pasha, had an expert modiste on hand in Istanbul to fit them. Used to cotton and worse, the Communist wives reveled in silk. "On my word." said a gallant Turkish Foreign Office official last week, "when the great ballroom of the Sultans in Dolmabagche Palace was filled with 3,000 guests in honor of Soviet Russia...
...Washington, Secretary of State Cordell Hull, wearing a business suit out of deference to the Commissar's proletarianism, emerged through a cordon of vigilant police with a warm greeting. Also present was Ahmet Muhtar, Turkish Ambassador, who two days later made up for the parties Comrade Litvinoff had missed when he deferred his trip to Angora (TIME, Nov. 6) by a sumptuous banquet in his honor. Footmen in red livery and gold buttons served caviar and champagne, there were crimson roses on the dinner table to honor the Soviet visitors, the turkey was called "Dindoneau a la Moskva...
...seemed to indicate a slip between the cogs of Dictator Josef Stalin's complex State machine. Last week that popular cog War Minister Klimentiy ("Klim") Voroshilov had not yet returned from his junket to Angora where he congratulated Dictator Mustafa Kemal Pasha on the tenth birthday of the Turkish Republic (TIME, Nov. 6). Order No. 173 was therefore not signed by "Klim" but by fierce-bearded Vice-War Minister Jan Gamarnik, who looks like a world revolution all by himself. Had "Klim" been in the Kremlin, observers thought, Order No. 173 would have been circulated privately to Red Army...