Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...International, Keystone, Acme, P. & A. or the Wide World picture services could have furnished him with a better photographic model than this blank face of a youth about twenty years Byrd's junior...
...youth and ominous "past" of Dictator Josef Stalin of Soviet Russia are kept shrouded in perpetual mystery by his iron censorship of all Soviet information sources. The very names of his wife and child are well-guarded secrets. Stalin dwells in the seclusion of an Oriental Potentate, because, say his friends, his parents were Asiatic and the reticence of the East is his birthright. Naturally the enemies of Comrade Stalin tell another story...
Last week the "other story" was told at length by the Berlin newspaper Tageblatt, a renowned Independent organ. The Tageblatt's informant, one Essad Bey, a purported friend of Stalin's youth, wrote...
...being betrayed. Kashiwagi, Prince Genji's friend, cuckolds him with his girl-bride, Nyosan. In the fury of discovery Genji plans glorious revenge. But his usual dignity, mellowed by age, prevents him from hasty action, and allows of reconsideration. For it has occurred to him that in his youth he had seduced a concubine of the old Emperor, his own father, and though the old man must have known perfectly well what was going on, he had pretended not to see. Taking counsel from this time-honored precedent, Genji blandly ignored the conscience-smitten Kashiwagi, and soon actually pitied...
...more interested anyway in the heroine of his youth, his older wife, Murasaki* of the versatile wit and mature charm. "Coming from the presence of younger women, such as Nyosan, Genji always expected that Murasaki would appear to him inevitably (and he was willing to make allowance for it) a little bit jaded, a trifle seared and worn. . . . But as a matter of fact it was just these younger women who failed to provide any element of surprise, whereas Murasaki was continually astounding him . . . her clothes scented with the subtlest and most delicious perfumes...