Word: thuraya
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...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...
Soon costly and significant gifts were bestowed upon the Royal Afghans. For Queen Thuraya two Angora cats of super-best breed, next an even softer, silkier present: a pile of rugs made from the pelts of famed and rare Angora goats...
King Amanullah and Queen Thuraya of Afghanistan emerged, last week, from Soviet Russia. From Moscow via the Crimea and the Black Sea they came to Constantinople, then plunged inland to Angora, the new capital of the Turkish Republic. There King Amanullah, called "The Peace of God" had his hand warmly shaken and both cheeks soundly kissed by the Ghazi, "The Victorious One," President Mustafa Kemal Pasha...
...station square, stood rank upon rank of Soviet infantry and a detachment of Red Cossack cavalry. President Kalinin, stepping forward and extending his hand, said briefly in Russian: "In behalf of the Soviet Government I greet your Majesty's arrival in the Soviet Union." Then as Queen Thuraya descended from the train, that great and polished linguist Soviet Foreign Minister Georges Tchitcherin advanced and addressed Their Majesties in their own tongue. He said...
...strode from the station to review the Red troops. First the infantry and then the cavalry wheeled past. Meanwhile Her Majesty chatted with the Soviet's most famed female diplomat, Mme. Alexandra M. Kollontai, who had come from her post as Ministress to Norway especially to attend Queen Thuraya. Their conversation was presumably "advanced," for Mme. Kollontai is an avowed, die-hard exponent of free love, while Her Majesty, a tireless educator, is easily the most emancipated woman in backward Afghanistan. Both these sagacious ladies paid small heed to President Kalinin, whom ignorant peasants affectionately call the "Little Father...