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...woman's name should appear in print but twice?when she is married and when she is buried," but certain exceptions, doubtless, may be pardoned in a President's wife, and few Presidents' wives have lived up to the above maxim better than the one who proposed it?Edith Carow Roosevelt...
...questions that require thought more than memory." If cramming is indulged in beyond legitimate limits,--"The questions should not be susceptible of answer by merely committing to memory facts and formulate." How great a transformation would be wrought in Harvard examination papers by the serious application of this maxim...
...Sorrento, Italy, Maxim Gorky, "The Bitter One," famed Russian novelist, became morbid, cabled Dr. Alexander Kaun of the University of California to commission him to write The Life and Times of Maxim Gorky. Dr. Kaun left immediately for the author's bedside...
...STORY OF A NOVEL-Maxim Gorky-Dial Press ($2.50). A married girl seeking more from life encounters a half-made creature from the imagination of the novelist who has sought to conquer her. The unreality of the creature, who is the thickness of paper and invisible standing sidewise, makes her tremble for the validity of her own existence. She is more friendly to the novelist...
...this leads to the intentions of the Powers. Will they, as was suggested, agree to hold immediately a conference for the purpose of righting all China's wrongs? Probably not. But, sooner or later, they will have to. Meantime, the god old maxim of divide et impera seems the better part of wisdom...