Word: turkishly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From the cozy "Home Information Center" at Mount Holyoke, Mass., Miss Irene Roelofs went straight to the American College for Girls at Arnautkeuy, suburb of Constantinople. "One of our tasks," said she brightly last week, "is to rectify and balance the Turkish meal, which usually contains an excess of carbohydrates...
Sniffing down the trail of applesauce, old-fashioned Turks saw the insidious influence of the American College for Girls penetrating to the very fundamentals of Turkish life, obtaining an ascendancy first over the Minister of Education and then over his friend and accomplice in applesauce, the Police Commissioner, finally altering even the carbohydrate menu with which Turkish officials have for centuries applied the gastronomic third degree...