Word: turkishly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mark O. Prentiss, criminologist, prime organizer of the National Crime Commission, returned from lunching with Charles Henry Tuttle, New York Republican Nominee for Governor, to find one Charles Faye, 22, looting his Park Avenue apartment. Noiselessly he snatched a Turkish sword-cane from the wall, forced Charles Faye at the point of it into a seat, made him talk about himself, made him demonstrate how, with strips of vellum and a piece of tin, he had jimmied the apartment lock. When his arm grew tired Mr. Prentiss changed the Turkish sword-cane for an Italian billy. Faye said...
Great believers in thrashing of the young used to be the Turks. But under the Turkish Republic thrashing of servants by masters, wives by husbands, children by fathers, is no longer condoned. Mustafa Kemal Pasha, anxious to make his country as Western as possible, has abolished the schoolmaster's rod along with fezzes, women's veils and the complicated Turkish alphabet. Illegal in their implications now are the old Turkish sayings...
...should lead the new Opposition party? His Excellency Ali Fethi Bey. appointed by Kemal Turkish Ambassador at Paris, was recalled. With dazzling celerity a by-election was arranged last week at Smyrna to elect Fethi to Parliament. By order of Prime Minister Ismet Pasha, who was going to be ousted by the coming "crisis." Smyrna police used whips on the rabble to make them turn out at the polls. They could vote, the police told them, either for an obscure and locally unpopular candidate offered by Dictator Kemal's own "Peoples' Republican Party" or for the eminent...
Replied the Victorious One, mystic, wistful: "The proposal to make me President of the Turkish Republic for life runs utterly counter to my ideal. The precedent of a lifetime presidency must never be established! The complete sovereignty of the people is inherent and must always prevail in republican regimes...
...there an exchange of winks? Probably not, but possibly. Kemal and Ismet are co-heroes of the Turkish Revolution, might be called their country's Lenin and Trotsky. Gravely the newsorgans of Angora announced that the President of the Republic, having taken advice and counsel, found that His Excellency Ismet Pasha is alone competent to guide the nation through these difficult times, and asked him to form a Cabinet. It was learned "on the very highest authority" that General Ismet, in conference with "leading politicans." was finding it quite possible to form a Government...