Word: formulas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sparking skates of Sonja Henje, Twentieth-Century Fox has lately been putting the old-fashioned musical on ice-- something which, in more than one sense, is a splendid idea. Unfortunately for "Happy Landing," Miss Henie's latest vehicle, the story calls for too much of the old musical formula: broken hearts, romantic orchestra leaders, and wisecracking business managers. Unfortunately for Miss Henie, she has again been paired with Don Ameche, who should be pulling his darling little black mustache and muttering "foiled again"; and this time Ethel Merman and her fire-alarm voice have been thrown in to boot...
...Washington himself last week, he refused to discuss the question of a TVA investigation and hinted that a conciliator would probably have come to the same conclusion about the marble claims as the commission. But his main job was to hand out to reporters a statement containing his own formula for dealing with Mr. Willkie and ending TVA's war with the private utilities. In it, after dexterously shifting blame for the trouble to litigation instituted by the utilitymen themselves, he proposed that the TVA should negotiate for the purchase of private power facilities on behalf of 400 communities...
...time of the French Revolution. Then the Benedictine monastery at Fécamp was destroyed, the monks dispersed, the secret of Elixir apparently lost forever. In 1863, however, Monsieur Alexander Le Grand of Fécamp chanced on an ancient tome in which Dom Vincelli's formula had been scribbled. The Le Grand family promptly began making Elixir again and now it is a world-wide favorite under the name Benedictine...
Japan's activities in China, he said, can be explained by the triple formula of "food, face, and fear"--food for Japan's dense population; a sense of "face" that demands complete naval supremacy; and fear of growing Communism in her huge neighbor...
...Funk and Adam Willis Wagnalls, both Lutheran pastors, brought out the Literary Digest, "a repository of contemporaneous thought and research as presented in the periodical literature of the world." Such a review, thought Partners Funk & Wagnalls, would be especially handy for theologians and educators. The Literary Digest amended its formula in 1905 to include newspaper comment on news more mundane than "thought and research." In ten years its circulation stepped...