Word: maxime
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...improbable that the Democrats will carry more than four of the doubtful states; but whatever happens, the Democrats and insurgent Republicans when they combine will have a voting majority in the 70th Senate. In the present session this situation has been true to a limited extent. That ancient maxim may be applied to the Democrats in this autumn's campaign: they have nothing to lose, everything to gain...
Manhattan is full of Italian waiters, German butchers, Irish millionaires and Russian artists. One of the Russians is Arshele Gorky, 23, who last week became an active member of the faculty of the Grand Central Art School. His cousin, Maxim, is now in Venice, treating a cardiac ailment and working on another book of those stories which, kindled from Anton Pavlovich Tchekov's great bonfire, have made his name burn like a sombre torch' across the world. Arshele Gorky admits the relationship. He himself paints still life. In his first newspaper interview he talked good sense...
...Peasant's Correspondent, the special organ of Soviet rabkors (local correspondents), sought to discover the reaction of a great prerevolutionary Russian man of letters to the new Soviet Journalism. Wrapping up a bundle of representative Soviet newspapers the editor despatched them to famed novelist-playwright Maxim Gorky,* now sojourning in Italy. Reply...
...Signed) "MAXIM GORKY...
Down the ages has come a sage maxim: "Beware the Greeks...." At Athens last week, representatives of the local Merchants Board deposed and swore that during the 13-month regime of the now deposed Dictator President Pangalos (TIME, Aug. 30), Mme. Pangalos regularly imported (smuggled) silk into Greece, duty free, under diplomatic seals, and disposed of it through a modiste related to General Pangalos. He, approving his wife's peccadillo, issued a decree forbidding the importation of silk as a measure of national economy. Thus Mme. Pangalos enjoyed a total monopoly, is said to have tripled the presidential stipend...