Word: maxims
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...combination of Lili Marlene and I'll Never Smile Again. When they began to ask for it in every bar in southern France, the words were translated to English, the title was changed to Symphonic. By last week it was the No. 1 song hit of France. At Maxim's in Cannes, Yolande, the French Hildegarde, sang it. So did lesser entertainers from Monte Carlo to Marseilles...
...Russians favor Vienna or Prague, which almost no one else wants. They have uncomfortable memories of Geneva, where Maxim Litvinoff once pleaded in vain for total disarmament and where the Soviet Union was bounced out of the League in 1939. But since these are hardly logical objections as of 1945, the Russians have indicated that they might just possibly consider Geneva, after...
Uncharted Seas. Solidly legalistic, Owen Roberts in time inherited the title of Justice Holmes - "The Great Dissenter." From the quotable Holmes, Justice Roberts drew a maxim: "If a law makes you want to puke, then due process has been denied...
East & West. Columnist Dorothy Thompson, visiting Prague with her Czech husband, Painter Maxim Kopf, found Czechoslovakia facing "eastward [toward Russia] in economic ideas and westward [toward the democracies] in politics." She wrote...
...week contracted to pay $15,000,000 for a 64% interest in Crosley Corp. (Crosley's 1944 earnings of $3,300,000 exceeded AVCO's by nearly $200,000.) This big mouthful was the outward sign that two aggressive businessmen, in their different ways, were following the maxim "In time of war prepare for peace...