Word: maximation
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Heut' geh' ich zu Maxim...
...sang The Merry Widow's dashing Prince Danilo. Less vocal (for reasons of state), Britain's gamesome King Edward VII and gamey King Leopold II of the Belgians were just as intime chez Maxim. To many another princely sprig, millionaire, archduke and demimondaine of the fey '90s, Maxim's in Paris' rue Royale was the most elegant bistro in Europe, the gaudiest symbol of the mauve decadence. Its décor was the most glittery, its women the most ravishing, its top-drawer scandals the most toothsome. No Manhattan nightclub captain was ever so suave...
...drab years after World War I, automobile tycoons and politicians of the Third Republic elbowed out dukes and princes. Business came before pleasure even at Maxim's. Over Maître d'Hôtel Albert's homard à l'américaine, Cabinet careers were made and broken, and million-franc deals consummated. Maxim's ladies, the poules de luxe, often sat in lonely splendor until at long last a U.S. sugar king or Bolivian tin baron whispered in Gérard...
...Maxim Litvinov, longtime Soviet Foreign Commissar and Ambassador to the U.S., was "released from his duties" as Deputy Foreign Minister. Into his shoes stepped the former Soviet Ambassadors to Britain and Japan, Fedor Gusev and Yakov Malik...
Many of the delegates were novice diplomats who were shy and nervous at the opening session. But a few were veterans who remembered the grand old days of '19, when they were gay, 'young third secretaries, and Paris was still Paris. Then Maxim's had still been open, and young Maurice Chevalier sang Madelon. Now they, like Chevalier, were getting old; there were no songs to replace the triumphant bugles of Madelon or the drums that rolled through Tipperary...