Word: maxime
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Believers in the maxim, "Blood will tell," made much of this story of John C. Lodge, whose grandnephew, as all Detroit knows, is Charles Augustus Lindbergh...
Cynics shied at Personality; saw in it a highly polished variation of the copy book maxim morality through which every U. S. boy is assured he can become President. Said one: "Just like Success and the American Magazine-only more...
...Maxim of the COUNTESS MARKIEVICZ
...murderess, the Countess was sentenced to life imprisonment. One year later she was released, and in the succeeding year (1918) she was elected a member of the British Parliament. At that time she launched and tirelessly repeated her maxim concerning Mr. Lloyd George (see above), whom she blamed for his opposition to the project of creating Ireland a Republic...
After the establishment of the Irish Free State (1922), Countess Markievicz took up another maxim: "The Irish Free State is not Irish, is not Free, and is not a State." Small ingenuity is needed to support this very logical thesis, and the Countess gave to it all her great energies, demanding that a true "Irish Republic" be established, "instead of our present mongrel specimen of a 'Dominion...