Word: maxims
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that the Corporation, Overseers, and Alumni should plan to tear down Appleton and replace it with a chapel of virtually the same size is a sad commentary on the juvenility of those august bodies. We have often heard the maxim that one always contemns the architecture of one's grandfather, and it seems unfortunate that Harvard should be so taken with the desire to spend money and to heap up new bricks as to lose sight of this truth. William Stix...
...Wendel sisters waxed and waned under the tyrannous rule of a brother whose whole life was bounded by the limits of his New York real estate, gathered under the ancestral maxim "buy but never sell". Once sister Georgiana gave vent to all the suppressed inhibitions so common, as the psychologists have pointed out, to middle aged victorians, and fied to the chaste red plush of the old Park Avenue Hotel. Her insubordination was dearly bought, however, for she was proved mentally unbalanced and passed the remainder of her days in a gloomy asylum for the insane. Ella conformed...
...maxim-maker he. One of his maxims: "Show me a GOOD office boy and I will show you a future executive...
That to man is a hero to his valet is an ancient and generally accepted maxim; that no university possesses many virtues in the eyes of its students is not quite as ancient but as generally accepted...
Arguments by many another great statesman were equally weasled. In the midst of the proceedings Soviet Commissar for Foreign Affairs Maxim Maximovitch Litvinov quit the Commission last month, denounced Mr. Gibson and the rest as "hypocrites bent on conserving the armaments of their countries!" flounced off to Milan for a secret talk with Italy's Foreign Minister Dino Grandi, finally returned to Moscow leaving Russia represented at Geneva by pensive, hyperintellectual Anatoliy Lunacharsky. (He. as Soviet Commissar of Education, released an "educational film" in which talented Mme Lunacharsky played the role of the seduced heroine...