Word: maxime
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...sentence was written by a Russian whom the British like and can understand, Maxim Litvinoff. As Foreign Commissar before the war, he was a protagonist of collective security-simultaneous moves to keep the peace. Now, as unofficial liaison man, he pleaded for simultaneous moves...
Died. Sarah Haynes, Lady Maxim, widow of Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim, inventor of the machine gun, stepmother of the late Hiram Percy Maxim, inventor of the silencer; in Norwood, England...
...another diplomat in waiting, a Russian, the Pact was equally good news. He was onetime Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff, once No. 1 sales man of Russia's United Front. For a decade he held forth at Geneva, talking for collective security and against Fascism, was waved to the sidelines in 1939 when Russia changed her tactics, began her appeasement play for time...
Attempting to prove the maxim that children make the difference between successful and unsuccessful marriages, the film degenerates into a maudlin, slow-moving Hollywood case-history, which never seems to end. Cary Grant admirably performs the transition from slap-happy reporter to weeping father; and Irene Dunne--neither young nor undulating as she used to be--is passable as the sentimental mother...
What the crowd of onlookers saw was the biggest airplane ever built-not a flying super-powered trunk lid like the late Russian Maxim Gorky, with engine piled on engine to make up for rough design, but a flying machine as sleek and carefully designed as a Spitfire. Rolling through the door the B-19 looked even bigger than she had in the hangar. To get her out, they had had to deflate her tires and weight her tail, so that the nose wheel of her tricycle landing gear was off the ground. Even then her rudder barely cleared...