Word: maxime
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Theatre, with more than 50 houses filled every night in Moscow and stock companies by the hundreds performing throughout the provinces, is by all odds the world's most active and inventive. With an imitative eye on its spiritual mother, the Theatre Union has produced Mother, adapted from Maxim Gorky's novel of an illiterate old woman (Helen Henry)* who, once she gets the hang of things, turns out to be the best Marxist of them all. The play's subject matter is no more radical than the technique by which it is presented...
...walls of the National Geographic Society's Hall of Explorers for the final award of prizes totaling $10,000. Curious for an art contest of such value was the list of judges: Mrs. James Roosevelt, mother of the President; Mrs. Emily ("Etiquette") Post; Hiram Percy Maxim; Lowell...
Thomas; Editor Kenneth Wilson Williams of the Eastman amateur publications. Mmes Roosevelt and Post were unable to attend the final judging, but the other three took their work seriously. For two solid hours newshawks waited outside glass doors while Inventor Maxim gesticulated with his glasses. Lecturer Thomas propped print after print on an easel. Editor Williams squinted, argued, paced the floor. Finally the judges emerged, smiling amiably and announced their decision. First prize of $1,000 went to Miss Mabel Graham of Lebanon. Ky. whose Portrait of Margaret, a picture of a laughing little girl in a party dress, clutching...
Playwright Anderson, whose simple maxim is that "somebody must write verse plays," has clothed his piece intentionally as well as unintentionally in an uneven variety of poetic fabric. Much of the common street speech of his criminals and vagrants is good stout tow-sacking. Much of the overlong excursion into the philosophy of justice, to judge by audience reaction, is tiresome shoddy. But pure chamfered silk, most observers agreed, were the tender, spontaneous love passages between Mio and Miriamne (Margo), Garth's mercurial younger sister, a curious and strangely apposite East Side Juliet...
...charge of murder because Smith was last seen when he left his home to go fishing with Brady. "Keep your mouth shut!" lawyers advised, and Pat Brady set his Irish jaw. Last week before the Commonwealth's High Court Brady's counsel cited a basic maxim of Anglo-Saxon law, argued: "There can be no inquest, much less a trial for murder, without a corpus delicti and one tattooed human arm disgorged by a shark is not a body...