Word: turkishly
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Tunisia, less than 70 years ago, was a region over which the Turkish Sultans ruled through a viceroy. It went bankrupt, was refinanced by the Great Powers, who installed British, French and Italian "comptrollers." In 1881 a French force invaded Tunisia to chastise the independent Khmir tribes. In the Bardo Palace at Tunis the Turkish viceroy signed over to Paris acknowledgement that Tunisia was a protectorate of France. This protectorate Italy did not "recognize" until 1896, and Turkey did not recognize it until 1920. Italians in 1881, were more numerous in Tunisia than were the French, and if nose-counting...
Esthete. In his polished culture and finely developed artistic tastes Prince Paul is a far cry from his peasant ancestor Karageorge who started the family career upward as an apprentice to a Turkish brigand. Of nine rulers in Belgrade in the last century only three died natural deaths at their posts. King Alexander I, assassinated in Marseille by Croatian zealots in 1934 was Paul's first cousin. Alexander's son, the present King Peter, is thus a first cousin once removed of Prince Paul...
...unconscious and eleven were killed last week in the scramble of 300,000 of Istanbul's inhabitants to get a look into the open coffin of the late President Kamal Atatürk. Vowing to follow her foster father to the grave, Flight Lieutenant Sahiba Gokçen, Turkish woman army flier, fasted in Istanbul's Dolmabaghche Palace, was later persuaded by physicians to pull herself together and leave for Ankara, the capital...
...leader's body left Istanbul later on the Turkish battle cruiser Yavuz, was accompanied to Ismid by the entire Turkish fleet and by British, French, German, Russian, Greek and Rumanian warships. At Ismid the body was transferred to a special train for Ankara, the capital, where. after a State funeral, the Ethnographic Museum furnished a temporary tomb...
Died. John J. ("Bathhouse John") Coughlin. 78, since 1892 a Chicago alderman and political power; of pneumonia; in Chicago. A onetime Turkish bath rubber. Bathhouse John saved his tips, opened an establishment of his own. managed to get a grip on the vote of the First Ward, never lost it. A master of personal publicity, he was equally famed for rhymed doggerel (which Chicago newshawks ghosted for him), bright waistcoats, a string of race horses which lost consistently...