Word: maximation
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...MAXIM BING...
That means that French officers and soldiers will continue suavely to educate Indo-China, using the maxim that the congai is more pleasant than the sword. Congai means something just above a prostitute, one is led to believe, a native "wife" taken by a French colonist for a period of time subject to change without notice. Every bellylaugh in the play is an attempt to explain these meanings; but, of course, grown-up children like to be told all about such things, while off-stage instruments go thumpety-thumpety-thump (atmosphere...
...Russian note, despatched by Comrade Maxim Maximovich Litvinov, Vice Commissar of Foreign Affairs, raised pointed objections to the Treaty, but indicated that Soviet Russia would sign anyway, for better or worse...
...Maxim Gorki, 60, greatest living Russian novelist, was stricken at Leningrad, with appendicitis...
Secretary Mellon had descended from his train nervously, shyly, and hurried to shut himself in a hotel suite. He was clinging to his maxim, "There's luck in leisure." Also, obviously, he was under great pressure to draft President Coolidge if possible. He had learned, or accepted, nothing final before leaving Washington.* He still sought conference with other leaders before speaking...