Word: turkishly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the Commodore's pennant fluttering from her yardarm, her khaki sides glistening with new paint, the Yawuz Sultan Selim, flagship and only battle cruiser of the Turkish Navy, steamed into the Golden Horn last week after a trial cruise and battle practice. Two hundred and fifty French engineers and dockyard foremen prepared to leave the comfortable homes they have occupied at Ismid on the Sea of Marmora and go home...
...Speedy, heavily armored, with innumerable watertight compartments, she was as far ahead of her time as Germany's latest 1931 warship, the pocket battleship Deutschland. At the beginning of the War she slipped through the British and French Mediterranean squadrons to Constantinople, where she was nominally attached to the Turkish Navy as the Sultan Selim...
...Istanbul last week the Turkish Chamber of Commerce received an order for "a hubble-bubble encrusted with pearls and diamonds" from the Berlin Chamber of Commerce...
Flattered by this unusual U. S. order, the Turkish Chamber of Commerce sensed a possible U. S. trend toward the nargile, announced last week that not only can a pearl and diamond encrusted hubble-bubble be supplied by special order but that all kinds of hubble-bubbles can be had from Turkey in styles and prices to fit every U. S. taste and purse...
...Dictator's decree, a tax equivalent to two U. S. cents has been laid on each cup of coffee served in a Turkish coffee house. Dictator Kemal, not pious, tipples champagne frequently. So potent is he, however, that last week only ancient Magnesia resisted the coffee tax. In all Turkey, only Magnesian coffee houses were shut...