Word: maximilien
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Although Marx and Engels foresaw imminent revolution in czarist Russia, they believed it would be not communist, but bourgeois, Maximilien Rubel declared yesterday in his final lecture on Marxism...
...Among the 25 lost were four war correspondents bound for the front: James 0. Supple, 34, of the Chicago Sun-Times; Albert Hinton, 46, of the Norfolk (Va.) Journal and Guide and other Negro papers ; Stephen Simmons, 32, of Britain's Hulton Press (Picture Post) ; and Maximilien Philonenko, 33, of the French Press Agency...
...superlatives. The object of their admiration was 40-year-old Gertrude O'Brady from Evanston, Ill. She was the protégée of Critic Anatole Jakovsky (Bref), who led the field by burbling: "O'Brady is the only great painter of the New World." Critic Maximilien Gauthier (Opéra) predicted that O'Brady would become a "great name in the history...
...Danton ("I wanted the youth of Paris to arrive in Champagne covered with blood . . ."). People even managed to forget Jean Paul Marat '"When a man lacks everything ... he is justified in cutting another's throat and devouring the palpitating flesh"). But one man they never could forget-Maximilien Marie Isidore de Robespierre, "the sea-green, incorruptible" monster, France's dictator during the Terror...
...Rome, 5,000 mi. away, Senator Guglielmo Marconi flashed three short-wave wireless signals, contacting a switch which turned on a battery of floodlights. Revealed was Jesus Christ the Redeemer, 130 ft. high, 92 ft. from fingertip to fingertip, arms outstretched. Visible 20 mi. away, sculptured by Frenchman Paul-Maximilien Landowski, the mammoth statue represents ten years of planning and construction at a cost of $250,000 donated in small amounts by the Brazilian faithful. His Holiness the Pope sent blessings, appointed Sebastian Cardinal Leme da Silveira Cintra, Archbishop of Sao Sebastiao do Rio de Janeiro, to be Papal Legate...