Word: amanullah
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...command from His Majesty King Amanullah, a new standard rose and streamed aloft. It was striped vertically black, red, green...
...Press, which has eyes even in remote Kabul, was a curious device emblazoned on the red or "independence" stripe. Two sheaths of rye encircle a chain of golden mountains over which rise the nation's Star and the royal Sun. Thus is symbolized the popular title of King Amanullah, who is known to millions of his subjects simply as "The Peace...
Seven hundred strong they marched through the Capital City of Kabul to the Great Bazaar. There, by the generosity of alert, up-to-date King Amanullah of Afghanistan, they were assisted into pants, buttoned into shirts, tied with cravats and hustled into coats. All these garments, cut after modes observed by King Amanullah on his recent tour of Europe (TIME, Jan. 23 to June 4), had been made by Afghan needlemen from native approximations to suitings and shirtings. Remained only the titanic project of clipping, shaving...
When tidings of insubordination came to King Amanullah, he acted with wily moderation. In the King's name it was shortly proclaimed that only those who especially desired the favor of His Majesty need shave. When Parliament assembled most chins were nude...
Suavely King Amanullah addressed the 700. A despot, he can charm with honeyed words. He did. Perspiring patriarchs ceased to wriggle in their pants, succumbed to royal blandishments, beamed when King Amanullah implied that their high destiny is to make Afghanistan pants-conscious...