Word: maxims
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...some San Marinese, the promise of new prosperity was all that counted. Among antiCommunists, the casino was a sharp political issue. They were convinced that behind the casino's gaming tables stood a menace to San Marino's independence, a mysterious Rumanian known locally as Maximo Maxim...
Long-Distance Calls. Maxim, a squat, balding little man, is listed in the official registry of landlocked San Marino as head of a shipping firm. He moved in a year and a half ago, lives quietly with his mistress in a rented stone bungalow. He wears yellow velvet gloves, talks more on the long-distance telephone than anyone else in the republic. From the Convent of St. Francis, Maxim has been seen slipping into the Communist casino's back door. A black-bearded monk summed up the general suspicion. "Here in San Marino," he said, "there exists Bolshevism...
...Marinese, who have a well-developed imagination, suspect Maxim of being a Cominform agent. Said one ominously: "Around the roulette tables there will be created centers of intrigue and espionage." But on most nights during the first week's play scarcely 100 gamblers made the trek up the mountain. Nearly all were Italians from modest Adriatic beach resorts, with little money and no talent for intrigue...
...hoped that the casino would fold, and with it the republic's leftist regime. Gildo Gasperoni had been heard to say: "If the casino succeeds we will be all right. If it doesn't, then we pack our bags and go." If Gasperoni went, thought San Marinese, Maxim might also go. He might even go in a cloud of sulphur smoke...
Victoria certainly would not have approved of her ebullient great-great-granddaughter's high kicks-but then Margaret has always shown herself to be more a child of Victoria's son Edward VII, an habitue of Maxim's in the days when Offenbach's music set the pace for Parisian gaiety. As Mademoiselle Fifi, Princess Margaret and seven of her friends turned the embassy party into a show that would have delighted Edward's eye if not his sense of royal decorum...