Word: veil
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Westerners, whose religious wars lie centuries behind them, could not easily understand how Turks felt last week. Kemal's ventilation had swept away the Turk's fez, his extra wives, his remaining wife's veil, and now his church service. Last week, for the first time in history, Turks of Istanbul, where the reform was inaugurated, understood what the priests were saying. But they found it hard to believe it was the same thing as the Arabic gibberish that had had 13 centuries of mumbo-jumbo behind...
...should see it Ramadan would begin, Ramadan the mystic month in which the Koran was revealed to Prophet Mohammed. This year the first glint of the new moon had a special, dread significance. Turks had been ordered by their stern dictator, Mustafa Kemal Pasha who made them drop the veil and the fez (TIME, Feb. 15, 1926 et seg.), that beginning with Ramadan they must no longer call their god by his Arabic name, Allah...
...Egypt boiled with indignation last week at a Turkish insult to the fez, favorite headgear of Egypt's fat King Fuad. Years ago Turks abandoned the fez, the veil, the Arabic alphabet and polygamy by command of their progressive dictator, President Mustafa Kemal Pasha. It was Kemal himself, according to irate Cairo newspapers last week, who insulted the fez on Turkey's Independence Day at a banquet tendered by the President at Angora to the diplomatic corps...
Even in Boston the mutations of time make themselves known; some visually, some tangibly, some even socially. Miss Lowell and Mrs. Jack Gardner no longer dominate Symphony Hall and the Fenway, respectively, the good burghers of Beacon Street draw a veil over the unhappy memory of Lee Higginson's supremacy in State Street, President Lowell is abandoning Harvard to its fate, and now Charles E. Alexander, of "The Boston Evening Transcript," has resigned to seek the ease with honor to which his thirty-five years as absolute arbiter of Boston society entitle him. Perhaps only Bostonians will recognize the cataclysmic...
...reality in American life. America is yearning for a guiding aim, for something to strive after; and the historian is in a good position to give the answer to that desire. Today's world is one that has been stripped of shams and pretenses; one that has seen the veil torn away from much that passed for idealism--and from much that was idealism. This country is weary of destruction; it desires rebuilding and most of all a system of ideals. The American believes as he has always believed in his institutions and his history, and no one today...