Word: maxime
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...story, "The Man Who Loved Islands," Arthur Symon's obituary estimate of Thomas Hardy; the first pages of Oswald Spengler's "Decline of the West": The last words of Anatole France; new verse by Amy Lowell, Carl Sandburg, e. e. ("lower case") cummings; contributions from George Saintsbury, Maxim Gorky, Thomas Mann, T. S. Eliot, Ford Madox Hueffer...
...Comrade Maxim Maximovitch Litvinov continued in Geneva last week his sport of making it appear that Soviet Russia and Germany are the only Great Powers which are ready and eager to join the U. S. in championing President Herbert Hoover's thesis that the nations must now strive to achieve not limitation but reduction of armaments (TIME...
...tainted and unmentionable plan was and is, of course, the one presented by Comrade Maxim Maximovitch Litvinov, Assistant Commissar for Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union. When he first went to Geneva (TIME, Dec. 5, 1927) he said that Soviet Russia was ready to completely disarm within one year, if all other nations would do likewise. Since then, plump, indefatigable Comrade Litvinov, who looks like a squirrel with a nut in either cheek, has been slowly learning that whatever plan he may offer will be pigeonholed, at least for some time to come...
...critical, sarcastic, Boob-Baiter Henry Louis Mencken should abandon the American Mercury and edit a Happiness Monthly and Rotarian Booster, it would not arouse greater surprise than the announcement from Moscow last week that a new Soviet magazine. Our Achievements, has been started under the editorship of Maxim Gorky...
...bold! Be bold!" was a favorite Occidental maxim of the late, sainted Dr. Sun Yat-sen (TIME, March 23, 1925), founder of China's present Nationalist Government. Nearly always the tail end of the maxim (". . . but not too bold!") was docked in quotation by dynamic, heroic Sun Yatsen. Last week it seemed that the penchant for daring of Saint Sun was cropping out strongly in his son, Mr. Sun Fo, who is Chinese Minister of Railways and Reconstruction. Without batting either of his eyes, Mr. Sun coolly asked legislative approval for a 50-year program of public works...