Word: maxims
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ancient maxim, Speak nothing about the Dead except good, was never more flatly disregarded than last week, in Paris, when M. Paul Valery, poet of severe Classicism, was received by the French Academy, amid pomp, and took the seat once occupied by that late famed trifler with life and words, M. Anatole France...
...said that Hudson Maxim loved a good fight. Perhaps that is why he wrestled in his youth and boxed in his age. He exercised always, took tennis seriously and played it creditably. He preferred preparedness to pacificism; moderation to Prohibition; the odors of his laboratory to the per fume of bathing beauties ? he took the role of Father Neptune at the Atlantic City pageant only once...
Before his body was cremated, his friends?Garrett Putnam Serviss of Tenafly, N. J., author and scientist; Dr. Miller Reese Hutchinson, inventor and engineer; Francis I. duPont?paid him many a lofty tribute. No religious service marked the brief ceremonies, since Inventor Maxim was a member of no church. Said Mrs. Maxim: "I am arranging things as I think he would have liked them...
Died. Hudson Maxim, 74, famed inventor; from anemia and gastric ulcers; at Lake Hopatcong...
...London Venture"; in Saville there is Pelham Marlay, and in the likeable Peter Serle a touch of Lord George Tarlyon. Venetia Vardon is the typical lovely creature of Michael Arlen, impossible yet plausible, stunning and elusive. At least the author has realized the truth of O. Henry's maxim that Bohemia is merely a land we do not live in, and has created appropriate characters, which are a relief after picayune sensationists such as James Joyce, Sherwood Anderson, and others, who think themselves realists for showing us the disagreeable things about disagreeable people in disjointed sentences. And no one would...