Word: turkishly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Escorted by a squadron of Turkish torpedo boats, the Tsar Ferdinand finally dropped anchor off the Bulgarian Black Sea port of Burgas. With a cross in one hand, an icon in the other, the Metropolitan Hilarion ("the Merry One") was first to welcome Their Majesties home. On the wharf a comely company of Bulgarian maidens poured water on the feet of Tsar Boris, a similar group of young men sprinkled his bride, now Tsaritza Ivana, as a hope that their lives might be as smooth as the surface of water...
Deaf as a post, or nearly, is great General Ismet Pasha, Prime Minister. At the railway station in Angora, bleak Turkish Capital, he warmly greeted last week a Greek, famed Eleutherios Venizelos, Prime Minister. Before M. Venizelos could speak, deaf General Ismet embraced him with a bear-hug. Arm in arm they left the station...
Next day the two Prime Ministers signed a Treaty of Friendship & Neutrality, amazing in view of the extreme bitterness of the Graeco-Turkish War (1921-23), followed by the expulsion from Turkey of 1,400,000 Greeks. A second treaty was also signed pledging Greece and Turkey to maintain the present status quo of their naval strengths...
Visiting Angora last week was Hungary's Count Stephen Bethlen de Bethlen, Prime Minister. Occasion for these two auspicious visits: Seventh birthday of the Turkish Republic...
...only remaining element that might give interest to Kismet is the able performance of 72-year-old Otis Skinner in the role he first acted 19 years ago. The rest of the players are indifferent and the play itself is pretty well outdated. It contains some fine Turkish architecture and one beauteous shot of girls in the palace swimming pool...