Word: veilless
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...Manhattan for the windup of their genial father's U.S. visit, Morocco's veilless Princesses Aisha (TIME, Nov. n), Malika and Nuzha met local newsfolk, acquitted themselves well through French and Arabic interpreters. Their little sister Amina, 4. skipped the conference in favor of a nap. A newshen inquired: "Is the Princess Aisha engaged?" Ignoring her linguistic aides, Aisha snapped a prompt no in English. Then someone inquired whether dynamic Feminist Aisha is regarded by Moroccan women as her country's own Joan of Arc. "Certainly not!" she replied, eyes twinkling. "Wasn't she known...
...second wife. In Egypt and Lebanon, Turkey and Syria-where for centuries the life of a woman was described proverbially as "from the womb of her mother to the house of her father, from there to the house of her husband, from there to the tomb"-women shop veilless in the markets, dance in nightclubs, train as nurses, drive cars unescorted, even vote. In the last ten years, Islam's women have achieved a greater change in status than in the preceding ten hundred...
...Missionary. Actually, the Sultan has only himself to thank for Aisha's militant feminist career. When Aisha was 16 years old, veilless and innocent of all social problems, she was put on a platform to deliver a speech written by her father demanding more rights for women. "I didn't know what it was all about," she recalls, "but after I delivered the speech, I began to understand what had to be done...
Undaunted, the feminists and their Communist leaders marched away to the house of a rich Persian merchant. His wife they suspected to be held imprisoned and frequently castigated because she had ventured to enter a bazaar veilless some months ago, had been seized by her husband's retainers, shut up in solitude. With the assistance of the Russian police, roused to investigate the Persian's house, a door was forced and the inner compound entered. At a stake set up in a pool of muddy offal was found, chained like a dog, the merchant's feminist wife...
...very jovial was the manner in which a mob, roused by the priests last week, set out to discipline women less docile than the ancient queen. Three women who were caught veilless were bound to stakes and exposed to a pious mob which threw stones until the women died. One youthful male Communist was likewise bound, reviled by the Ichans (Priests), and beaten to death with flails, despite attempts by the police to rescue him. Kindlers of Asia. All over the province of Samarkand and throughout Turkestan similar outbursts were provoked last week by "Woman's Day." This remote...
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