Word: maxime
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sources, had found out that Stalin was worried, too. Stalin had gone all out for cooperation with capitalist countries; the build-up of Yalta and Dumbarton Oaks in Russia would make a shift embarrassing. The Russian people certainly did not want to contemplate the prospect of World War III. Maxim Litvinov, who represents those Communists who believe in cooperation with capitalist democracy, was pointedly brought from his obscurity to attend a Moscow dinner for Hopkins...
...tweed suits. In spite of his protests he is taken around the front door of heaven and sent in the back way under the "mother of pearly" gates where he meets heaven's janitor dusting off stars. By now reduced to nothing more than a slushy dramatization of the maxim to live your own life regardless of what your parents were or did, "Carousel" concludes with Billy returning to earth for a day to cheer up his family...
Died. Julius Keller, 81, New York restaurateur (Maxim's) famed as "the father of cafe society," credited with introducing the gigolo into U.S. night life (an early employe: Rudolph Valentino); in Southampton, L.I. He once recalled firing Singer Rosa Ponselle from Maxim's, later meeting her when she was a Metropolitan prima donna and asking innocently : "Where are you working now, Rosa...
This was important because Teschen flanks the Moravian Gate, the No. 1 pass into the natural fortress of Bohemia. Bismarck had laid it down as a political maxim that "whoever controls Bohemia controls Europe. " It was almost as axiomatic that whatever strong power controlled Silesia controlled Prussia...
...Bank trucks. One such attempt netted $75,000, resulted in the death of 20 people when one of the comrades, in the heat of expropriation, tossed a bomb. Besides, the expropriated bank notes had been in large denominations, and all over Europe comrades (among them Soviet Foreign Vice Commissar Maxim Litvinoff) were jailed for passing the hot money...