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...shambles. Nadir's nephew King Amanullah, whose Western reforms so angered Afghans, had fled the capital (TIME. Dec. 24, 1928 et seq.). On the throne sat bloody Bacha Sakao, an upstart chief whose name meant "The Water Boy." Backed by the royal family's bribes of the Durani, Uncle Nadir marched on Kabul. He caught one of the Water Boy's favorite generals and his staff, boiled them all in vegetable oil. Water Boy picked two of Nadir's nephews from his hostages, slew them and piled their bodies in a palace closet. When Nadir...
...strongest bond, the person of the King may be of paramount significance. Had swart, wiry little King Amanullah been assassinated, neither his phlegmatic 280-pound brother, or another brother who is insane, or the boy Crown Prince Rahmatullah (TIME, Sept. 17) could have saved the dynasty of Durani. But Amanullah was not dead. Presently he came speeding by motor car into Kandahar, "Second City of the Realm," after encountering no opposition from the bandits who, stupid, seemed to think that when a king has abdicated he is going to stay abdicated...
Harvard 1927 Brown 1927 Durani l.f. s.s. Good Bennett c.f. 2b. Jawarick Zarakov 3b. 1b. Scribner Howard s.s. c. Pemberton Ullman 2b. r.f. Mabie Tobin 1b. 3b. Brown Hamlen r.f. l.f. Douglas Duchin c c.f. O'Brien Gates p. p. McGeeney...
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