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Word: maxims (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Above the reception room mantel was a stone-hewn hammer & sickle and a portrait of Dictator Stalin. Drinking champagne, but not touching the bountiful caviar and vodka, Mr. Chamberlain stood below a portrait of Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff all evening, talked with Comrade Maisky for a half hour, departed at n p.m., whereupon the orchestra began to swing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Pulse | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

...Black Hawks, dual control will be novel, but a change of managers in midseason is nothing new. Owner Frederic McLaughlin, polo-playing millionaire coffee man, apparently has put great store in the old sport maxim, "Pan the players and can the coach." In 13 years he has canned ten managers-a record for major-league hockey. "He tried almost everyone except Irene Castle [his divorce-seeking wife]," one sportswriter commented...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Out | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

...young man who believes in Horace Greeley's famed maxim is balding Banker Guy C. Myers of No. 35 Wall Street. For several years Mr. Myers has been going West with profit. Last week he turned a neat profit in Nebraska...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PUBLIC UTILITIES: Myers Deal | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

...Liberte" and Charlie Chaplin in "'The Floorwalker." February 9, "The Wave" (Mexican) and Charlie Chaplin in "Burlesque of Carmen." March 2, "Crime and Punishment" (French) and Charlie Chaplin in "The Adventurer." March 23, "Shame of a Nation" (German) and Charlie Chaplin in "The Immigrant." April 13, "The Youth of Maxim" (Russian) and Charlie Chaplin in "The Cure...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SERIES OF SIX MOVIE CLASSICS TO BE SHOWN | 11/16/1938 | See Source »

...Peter-Maxim Litvinoff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 17, 1938 | 10/17/1938 | See Source »

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