Word: max
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...MAX F. MEYER...
...Baer fight, for example, he trained at the yoga roost of Dr. Pierre Bernard, the Omnipotent Oom of the Sunday supplements. Half an hour before the fight his handlers came into his dressing room, found him standing on his head-relaxing, he said. Thus relaxed, he handed Max quite a pasting. But Tony Galento, the Orange, N. J., barman, is most relaxed with a bung-starter in his hairy paw. For a week before last week's fight he smoked a dozen big black cheroots a day, drank two or three beers after workouts, did road work nights until...
...with an almost perfect synthetic daylight, were tickled with everything. They got a familiar pleasure from such standard brands as George Luks's gamey Mrs. Gamley, George Bellows' Dempsey and Firpo, John Sloan's Backyards, Greenwich Village, Charles Burchfield's Old House by the Creek, Max Weber's The Chinese Restaurant. Most of the 30 newly acquired works were new only to the Whitney Museum, added to the housewarming without spoiling the old home mood...
Britain's cockney chanticleers had not yet started to crow in chorus. But one martial ditty (by Songwriters Max & Harry Nesbitt, Alec Daimler & Syd Green) hit the characteristic British cock-a-doodle...
...friend, Critic Edmund Gosse, Baring sent a telegram: "Maurice Baring passed away peacefully this afternoon." At Gosse's Marsh heard Artist-Writer Max Beerbohm explain the diminutive figures in William Orpen's pictures: because Orpen was so short. "He sits down to paint, and says, 'Now I'll do a tremendously big fellow, I should think about five foot...