Word: maxime
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...subject. The president is Dr. Alexander Lambert, New York; the treasurer, Prof. Irving Fisher, of Yale. Two of the original members, John Burroughs and Sir William Osier, have died. While the committee contains a number of men widely known for their opposition to tobacco, such as Henry Ford, Hudson Maxim, Dr. Eugene Lyman Fisk, Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, it has determined to get at the truth?if it can be obtained? by rigorous experimental methods, and is willing to stand or fall on the results of its investigations...
...main work was The Organon of Rational Healing, which embodies the four main principles of the homeopathic creed: 1) The "proving" or testing of all medicines on healthy persons before their use in treatment. 2) The law of "similars''-often epitomized in a Latin maxim, Similia similibus curantur. The theory is that specific drugs produce in the healthy, symptoms of the diseases they are adapted to cure. The selection and administration of the proper drug for each disease is the heart of homeopathy. 3) The use of only a single remedy for each disease. 4) Minimum dosage...
Battling Siki: " In Paris, I walked into Maxim's for dinner, leading a lion on a leash. Exeunt omnes! Later the diners got courage enough to return and buy me champagne. Still later those of them who were most jovial patted my lion...
...when all the genius of the world is available for solving such problems as may be suggested, the possibilities seem limitless. When a maxim silencer has been invented for airplanes, and non-clogging pipe-stems have become actualities, inventors and scientists can turn their attention to the making of articles once suggested in joke. Stephen Leacock's "Man in Asbestos" may yet come into being, dressed in a suit of everlasting knickerbockers, and cating concentrated food pills for nourishment. "Hole-proof Hosiery", now named with optimistic exaggeration, will some day be made so as to defy even the attacks...
More standards of comparison can be brought to the Moscow Art Theatre's production of Maxim Gorky's "The Lower Depths" than to any other production offered during their Boston engagement. Within the past three years the play has had two professional productions in New York. One of these was the Arthur Hopkins production in which Pauline Lord first attracted considerable attention by her rendition of Nastya. The other was that given by the Yiddish Art Theatre in their theatre in the Bowery, and last spring here in Boston. The American production offered many interesting features, and differed greatly from...