Word: amanullah
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False, almost jubilant reports last fortnight had it that King Amanullah of Afghanistan and Queen Thuraya had been driven out of Kabul, their capital, by insurgents who objected to the King's dictum that all male Afghans wear pants...
Thomas Woodrow Wilson found out that it may be a mistake to return from Europe with new-fangled ideas, and so, last week, did King Amanullah of Afghanistan...
...vexed have Afghan males grown at the European pants into which they have been put (TIME, Sept. 10) that last week a large portion of the army revolted, seized the capital, Kabul, and chased King Amanullah with Queen Thuraya to an outlying fort, where they took refuge with loyal troops...
Last week His Majesty sallied forth from Kabul, his capital, with a considerable expeditionary force. He would discipline, he said, the obstreperous Rangu Khel Shinwaris, a nomadic folk who have Stubbornly refused to adopt hats, pants and other innovations imported by King Amanullah after his recent European tour (TIME, Jan. 23 to June...
Rebellious tribesmen who continue their refusals to exchange comfortable robes for scratchy store clothes will be punished, threatened King Amanullah, by "public exposure...