Word: maxims
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...best jazz orchestras blared near a frisky goat, four droop-eyed sheep, a cageful of songbirds and roosters. Two bear cubs, borrowed by Ambassador Bullitt from the Moscow Public Zoo, spent most of the evening in each other's arms. Revelers in white ties included Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff, Education Commissar Bubnov, Foreign Trade Commissar Rosengolt. Only the most old-fashioned Belshevik guests such as Publicists Nikolai Bukharin and Karl Radek, came dressed in proletarian sack suits. Tossing off the Ambassador's champagne, they sported all night with the excuse of waiting for his cocks...
...reach a climax with the open ing of the Jubilee, a series of full page layouts of war pictures appeared in the Star every day for three weeks. They showed soldiers dying horribly of gas; soldiers of many nations fighting or drilling with the same make of machine gun (Maxim); preparations in Paris, Berlin and Tokyo to protect civilians against gas attacks...
...moment, not from the Germans-but from the British Navy! . . . Mr. Whitlock was working earnestly, in co-operation with the German authorities and a Belgian committee, to rescue starving Belgium from the British blockade." In 1915 a book called Defenceless America, by the brother of Sir Hiram Maxim, machine-gun inventor, raised goosebumps on thousands of U. S. necks. It was made into a cinema called The Battle Cry of Peace...
...Moscow's Cinema Festival held last month to celebrate the 15th anniversary of Soviet cinema, The Youth of Maxim shared first prize with Chapayev (TIME, Jan. 28) and Peasants, to be released in the U. S. next month. Like Chapayev, this attentive and historically intriguing study of the Revolution in its infancy is infused with qualities which U. S. cine-maddicts may find new in Russian cinema: an ability to take its message for granted, to establish a sensible relation between the political preoccupations and the other concerns of its characters, to laugh at itself. Technically as adept...
...George Maxim Anossov Hanfmann, Ph.D. University of Berlin, summa cum laude. His field is Etruscan art, and he is now working on it at Johns Hopkins...