Word: formulaic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...After 75 years of marriage, Mrs. Joseph Forstadt of New York gave her formula for success as a wife: "Just keep your mouth shut...
...very well produced. Alfred Drake makes an excellent Soren, and in her first Broadway role, Hollywood's Marsha Hunt looks and proves delightful. Playwright Scott gets in some funny cracks and lively scuffles, and knows what Hollywood is like; but every time his findings bump up against his formula, the findings take a beating. In the end, it's the formula that takes a beating...
...below). In Brussels, the defense pact between Britain, France, Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxemburg (TIME, March 15) was ready for signing. Said Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak: "The moment is vital. . . . [But] the best treaty in the world is worth only what its execution is worth. A diplomatic formula is not hard to find. A military agreement is not hard to make. But economic collaboration between people . . . that is the obstacle which must be surmounted...
John Steelman, 47, plump, red-faced ex-conciliator of the Labor Department, who always had one formula for conciliating John L. Lewis: "Give in." After Clifford, his rival in the antechamber, Steelman comes nearest to having the boss's ear. He handles labor and economic problems...
...prospectus was undecided on whether to call TIME pieces "stories" or "articles." It was, however, firm on their brevity: not over 400 words. Calvin Coolidge, struck by their conciseness, called them "items" (pronounced eye-terns). When TIME'S narrative formula began to emerge in the mid-'20s, not all readers liked it. Said one: "Now I know why it's called TIME; it takes so long to get to the point...