Word: maxims
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dynamic maxim attributed to Stephen Girard reads: "My deeds must be my life; when I am dead my actions must speak for me." We hope Christian manhood leaving Girard College is eloquent action; a mere educational plant done up in Chester County marble is rather static-entirely speechless...
...Buffeted by the harsh tribulations of unhappy domestic life, he becomes engulfed in a whirlwind of despair which barely escapes culmination in a terrible fate. It is not until his psychological problem is fully understood by his father, a victim of unhappy matrimony, that he finds solace in the maxim that it is a comfort to the wretched to have companions in misfortune...
...every man is king and nobody is a millionaire, but successful writers are sitting pretty. Next to Maxim Gorky the Soviet author with the most thronelike seat is Alexei Tolstoi. Distantly related to the late great Leo (Anna Karenina), he enjoys a national success surpassing his great namesake...
...London from Paris, hastily and much perturbed. They had not been to Geneva, and frantic longdistance telephone calls to 14 European Foreign Ministers informed those statesmen that there was not going to be any going to Geneva last week. A call to this effect caught Soviet Foreign Minister Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff as he was about to entrain in Berlin, switched his destination from Geneva to London. Emphatically in Paris "something had happened...
...some of them were the plenipotentiaries of the Locarno Powers, excepting Germany (i. e., Britain, France, Belgium and Italy), and some were the League Sanctions Committee. Yet the same statesmen turned up again & again. An exception was that since Soviet Russia is not a Locarno Pact signatory, Foreign Minister Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff was not directly in on the Locarno palavers...