Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...find it once more my duty to correct your news and warn you about your editorial hot-airs. A year and a half ago you published some mistaken news or rather a rotten material about His Imperial Majesty, Reza Shah Pahlavi of Persia, the leader of our youth and a genius of his age. As a warning to you, I corrected your news and warned you to be careful with regard to the news concerning world figures, such as our most beloved leader...
...been often pointed out that Ina Claire is one of the few Follies girls to make and keep, a reputation in the serious theatre. Unlike the numerous slightly or violently dowdy ladies whose one claim to distinction after youth has. passed is that they, were once members of a Follies chorus', she found musical comedy more than a means for leaving the stage. Schooled by Belasco-who has so often seen talent where other producers saw nothing at all-she had a series of successes in comedy dramas of a sophistication suited to her flexible, quick voice...
Francisco Goitia lives as a recluse in the Indian village of Xochimilco on the edge of a floating garden. In his youth he went to Europe but returned like the others to build up a Mexican art tradition. During the Revolution he was staff-artist for General Angeles, antagonist of Villa. Like all Mexican artists he is concerned with suffering, has dedicated his art to the martyrdom of the Revolution. Like Michelangelo, Painter Goitia studied anatomy in dissecting rooms "to see about a flagellated back." Once he poured a pail of animal's blood over his model's back...
...Novelist and dramatist like his father, Alexandre fils (1824-95) began to write when he found himself $10,000 in debt. Taunted throughout youth for his bastardy, his works contained preachments against adultery, seduction. He gained most fame from his plays (La Dame anx Camclias, Idces de Madame Aubray, La Femmc de Claude, L'Etrangcrc) in which such great actors as Sarah Bernhardt, Benoit Constant Coquelin and Jean Mounet-Sully appeared. In 1874 he was elected to the French Academy, a distinction which his father never achieved...
THESE WORDS this flying cadet heard in '18 from his flying instructor were, and are, words youth hears always...