Word: khan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last week for gleaming-eyed, white-tusked King Habibullah, the savage onetime bandit who last winter wrested Afghanistan's throne from weak, well-meaning little King Amanullah (TIME, Jan. 28). All through the summer, Usurper Habibullah has been harassed by the lean, ruthless, white-chinned Nadir Khan, ill-famed for boiling his captured enemies in oil (TIME, Sept. 2). Last week Nadir converged three armies of overwhelming might upon Kabul. Prudent Habibullah fled in an airplane to escape being French-fried. Without resistance the city fell. Since victorious Nadir was once a general in the service of ousted King...
...again in the Foreign News of Sept. 16 issue of your weekly trash on p. 25, under the news of "The League," I find an account of His Excellency Ali Khan Foroughi. Mr. Editor, I have the pleasure to notify your most mistaken honor (!) that Mr. Foroughi is not a prince; he is a world figure today, but he is not a prince. As a leader of the Persian nationalists, we glorify in him. much more so because, he has risen to an international figure, not with a royal ancestry but rather with ancestors who were commoners...
Science. The science articles are so written as to be of value to layman and scientist alike. William Beebe, for instance, reveals that the wild animals on the Galapagos Islands are tame. L. H. Dudley Buxton, Anthropological reader at Oxford, recalls that Jenghiz Khan was born "with a piece of clotted blood in his hand...
...beard handled the gavel as the Assembly of the League of Nations met in Geneva, last week, to talk "Security," "Disarmament" and then the "United States of Europe." P. is for Persia and alphabetically it was P.'s turn to preside. Nervously Persia's swart Prince Mirza Mohammed Ali Khan Foroughi assumed the chair. Perspiring, he constantly wiped his brow with a bright pink silk handkerchief. Then diffidently, as though conscious that the words of a Prince were as chaff to these commoners, he sped the Assembly's, proceedings with a dash of Orient philosophy thus...
French-frying one's generals is an insult no potent bandit king can tolerate. Fierce King Habibullah therefore decreed that any of his own subjects who should publicly utter the name of execrable "Nadir Khan" should...