Word: maxime
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With his white-haired wife, Davis lives in a small apartment filled with bulging bookcases, a big typewriter desk, a battered, slipcovered easy chair. For relaxation he still plays bridge, with Russian Ambassador Maxim Litvinoff, Publisher Eugene Meyer of the Washington Post, Commerce Secretary Jesse Jones. (Meyer and Jones, bitter enemies, are never in the same foursome...
...apply the principle of self-determination to the disputed areas, plebiscites to be taken to ascertain their loyalties. But the fundamental solution of the problem can be secured not merely through frontier rectifications; Russia must be given security from aggression by an establishment of that collective security for which Maxim Litvinov waged a fruitless battle throughout the Thirties. In 1919, Clemenceau and Foch gave up their demands to German territory for an Anglo-American promise to institute an effective system for main-taining peace; that promise was not kept. At the end of World War II, Russia may be expected...
From a cozy game of bridge up stood Russian Ambassador Maxim Litvinoff, Secretary of Commerce Jesse Jones, ex-U.S. Ambassador Joseph E. Davies, Bridgeplayer Ely Culbertson. Their conditions, reported later by Culbertson: Litvinoff, $32 richer; Culbertson, $8 richer; Davies, $2 richer; the Secretary of Commerce (whose best game is poker), somewhat poorer...
...with the help of three dress rehearsals that lasted most of three nights, the show was in pretty good shape for its' swish Washington premiere. The first-night audience, which included Eleanor Roosevelt, the Maxim Litvinoffs, the Harry Hopkinses, was enthusiastic if occasionally irreverent : when Actress Cornell tossed herself too quiveringly into her lover's arms, the house roared with laughter. Afterwards the bigwigs trooped backstage. Amid his congratulations, Harry Hopkins voiced a complaint: "No man would say good-by to the woman he loves wearing heavy leather gauntlets...
...real war-games buffs sail into the blue of their own inventions. As long ago as 1914 H. G. Wells, in Little Wars, told how he and his friends had played with toy cannon, soldiers, houses and mock terrain, a play war of "brisk little battles." In 1917 Hudson Maxim, the inventor and explosives expert, revealed with some disgust that he had been forced to redesign his own war game to include the new factor of airpower. A New Yorker profile of Norman Bel Geddes in 1941 noted...