Word: turkishly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mongol khans beat us. Then the Turkish begs beat us; then the Swedish feudal lords and then the Polish aristocrats. Then the Anglo-French capitalists beat us and the Japanese barons beat...
...band, made to promise he would be baptized. But he knew life in Venice would be insufferable, and after his enforced baptism escaped by ship to friends in Constantinople. After an abortive Zionistic attempt to found a Jewish colony at Tiberias he sailed with a Turkish expedition against Venice-owned Cyprus, and there had a vicarious revenge on the city that had ruined him. There too he met again his lost daughter, bringing three children and bitter memories of her worth less husband. Surrounded by his grateful family Shylock died, full of years and at last in peace...
Back to Istanbul (Constantinople) last week went Dr. Julius Klein, U. S. Assistant Secretary of Commerce, bubbling with optimism. He had spent two days in Angora, inspected the new Turkish Government buildings and the model experimental farm of Dictator Mustafa Kemal Pasha.* Said Dr. Klein...
...Fethi Bey, leader of the new party, knows how an opposition ought to act, has observed as Turkish Ambassador at Paris the antics of one of the most obstreperous parliamentary oppositions on Earth. Last week, inasmuch as Leader Fethi had been recalled to Angora specifically to cut Parisian capers, he cut them in the national assembly, flayed the government, proposed a motion of censure, voted for it with ten of his opposition deputies...
...22?Hearing of the twelve-million-pound claim v. Great Britain of the heirs of onetime Sultan Abdul Hamid II for properties in Egypt, Iraq, Palestine & Cyprus; before a mixed tribunal with a Danish president, one Turkish and one British judge; at Istanbul...