Word: maximize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lana, in Technicolor, makes a fetching widow in an assortment of black lace undies. Lamas leaps about energetically and sings five tuneful Lehar songs, including Girls, Girls, Girls, Villa, and I'm Going to Maxim's. There are gypsy dances, a Parisian can-can and a lavish Merry Widow waltz, as well as a good deal of hand kissing, heel clicking, flower tossing, serenades under balconies and debauchery at Maxim's with Lolo, Frou Frou, Mimi, Yvette and Nicolette. Everyone works very hard at being gay, but somehow this Merry Widow is not always as lighthearted...
...Contest gold has all the lure of pirate gold" is a favorite maxim of Wilmer S. Shepherd, founder of the Shepherd Correspondence School of Contest Technique ("the Harvard of contest schools") in Philadelphia. Last week, Wilmer Shepherd was bubbling with pride because one of his students, Mrs. Beatrice A. Zimmer of Modesto, Calif, had won nylons for life in the Sachet Nylon last-line contest. He claims that in 21 years his students, mostly housewives, have won-through radio & TV, magazines, etc.-more than 40,000 prizes valued...
...America-and France, too-is completely the contrary of a nation of prey. Nothing is more foreign to her character than the maxim of every tyranny since the world began: 'Hate me if you will, provided that you fear me.' America is wretched over the necessity for making herself feared, and she cannot bear to be hated. Her great errors have always been in the realm of the emotions...
...Bobo Rockefeller is quoted in TIME (June 23) as saying that she will never forget Winthrop Rockefeller "because there is an old saying that a woman never forgets the father of her firstborn." To speculate about the origins of this maxim is fascinating. Back in the days when old sayings were in the making, grandmamma took the place of television. When she was in the mood to remnisce, the grandchildren gathered round . . . She liked to talk about her youth, and one yarn went something like this: "The father of my firstborn was a Mr. Drybutter. He had a slack spade...
...first time in a championship bout, a referee, Ruby Goldstein, called it quits after ten rounds and was lugged off to the dressing room suffering from heat prostration. Robinson, in one of his peak performances, was doing all the work while the heavier (by 15½ lbs.) Maxim was content to bide his time, using his superior weight in the clinches to tire out the challenger. The strategy, such as it was, began to pay off. In Round 13, Sugar Ray, his eyes glazing and his legs rubbery, threw a prodigious right. It missed the target by a yard...