Word: maxime
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When Comrade Maxim Maximovich Litvinov appeared at Geneva and offered to sign with the Great Powers a pact of total disarmament (TIME, Dec. 12, 1927), he was called a hypocrite. When he appeared again, this time with a pact of partial disarmament (TIME, April 2), the Acting Foreign-Minister of Soviet Russia was once more called a hypocrite. Nobody believed that Red Russia would keep a pledge to disarm...
...Comrade Maxim Maximovich Litvinov arose, and in the course of welcoming the plenipotentiaries of Rumania, Poland, Latvia and Esthonia, referred to Rumania as "a country with which we had serious difficulties-difficulties not settled by this protocol...
...leader long before it received general publicity) and high standards of living. He believes in and sets an example of hard work. He also believes in vacations, saying that a man who works twelve months does only eight months' work. As for getting ahead in the world, his maxim is: "Roasted pigeons don't fly into a man's mouth...
...seemed a flat challenge to the economic legend embodied in Calvin Coolidge. Said Mr. Ford: "No successful boy ever saved any money. They spent it as fast as they got it for things to improve themselves." Mr. Ford obviously did not have Calvin Coolidge in mind while uttering this maxim...
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...