Word: formula
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Little Spitfire. Little originality has beamed along the Rialto so far this season. Perhaps wary producers insist upon tried successes of former seasons, revamped and relabeled. The Little Spitfire is just another one of those Irene formula shows, with a working girl marrying into Southampton. Customary society crooks complicate matters before the dowager accepts her daughter-in-law. In all fairness, a good cast does almost make a play out of this. As the titular heroine, Sylvia Field spits and flares conscientiously and with charm. Possible success of the show, however, if any, will redound mainly to the credit...
Next day Bishop Diaz of Tabasco, active spokesman for the Mexican Episcopate was granted an audience with President Calles. Though the Government was reported to have stood firm on the letter of the present anti-religious laws, Bishop Diaz hinted guardedly to newsgatherers that a formula might be found under which the holding of Catholic services would be tolerated, though discouraged by the State...
...goes over 5¾% of the road's property valuation. What that valuation should be based upon is in dispute. The Government insists on the 1913 value of the roads, the roads upon their present (and higher) replacement costs. Meanwhile the railroads pay according to the Government formula, but under protest. The Fund, augmented in ten months last year by $732,448.34 (from 33 lines) now approximates $6,000,000, but may not be dispersed because there is no prospect of the valuation quarrel being settled...
Last week, calm brooded upon confusion. A formula of agreement was discovered. There was drafted, passed, recorded a succinct definition: Armaments are armaments...
...leaders of last week's quite routine revolution were: Commander Cabecadas, General Costa, Captain Baptista. They accounted for their seizure of power by the usual formula of military revolutionists...