Word: maxime
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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REMINISCENCES (213 pp.) - Maxim Gorky-Translated by S. S. Koteliansky, Leonard Woolf and others - Dover...
Come next New Year, that elusively collective personality, Hollywood, should reconsider a maxim which must be on its resolution back-list: leave well enough alone. Given Kathryn Grayson, June Allyson, and Jimmy Durante as ingredients, the average tired aesthete would probably plan something with the two girls, standing artistic but wordless, on each side of the screen, with Durante doing the rest. Not so Hollywood...
...Goes My Love (Skirball-Manning, Universal), based on Hiram Percy Maxim's reminiscences of his inventor parent (A Genius in the Family), is a sort of utility-grade Life with Father, told chiefly in terms of what it does to Mother. Time & place: Brooklyn, in its mansard-capped prime. Since Son Percy (Bobby Driscoll) is a regular little heller and Father (Don Ameche) a regular social booby trap, life is anything but simple for Mother (Myrna Loy). Finally one of Percy's pranks almost causes her to lose her second baby. But by dint of widespread praying...
...maxim of Hippocrates, in Old English lettering, hangs beside the desk of Dr. Roscoe Roy Spencer in Bethesda...
...Prime Minister answered the way that Maxim Raymond, and every other M.P., knew he would. Said he crisply: "My understanding is that [Mr. Bevin] is representing the United Kingdom and the United Kingdom only." Members on both sides of the House thumped their desks in approval...