Word: formulas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first of his dummy elections. He clamped on the lazy, illiterate, Spanish-speaking near-whites his own personal monopolies in salt, shoes, milk, meat and tobacco, paid almost nobody honest wages except the over-sized army of 2,500. He toadied to Washington and, in short, applied the usual formula of Caribbean tyranny. He has an armor-plated Packard car with facsimile field guns for fender lamps, a toothsome white mistress* and their bastard child who has a colonel's rank and colonel's pay. He has been happy but for two annoyances...
...Department of Justice school for training its agents, snowing Brick Davis becoming involved in difficulties with his teacher (Robert Armstrong), trying to attract the attention of a girl (Margaret Lindsay) who thinks she dislikes him and doing most of the other things which are part of the Cagney formula. The second half, when Brick Davis' schooling is over, shows the war between a squad of G men and the Leggett gang, a war characterized by incidents which will remind audiences of the Union Station massacre in Kansas City, the unsuccessful attempt to arrest John Dillinger in his St. Paul...
...work Critic Elliot Paul wrote: "She has no formula. Each painting is a separate problem, and her palette is rich and varied enough to deal with it freshly." And even conservative, bang-haired Royal Cortissoz spoke largely of her promise...
...adaptation by Norman Krasna of his play, Small Miracle (TIME, Oct. 8), which that screenwriter dashed off between pictures a year ago and in which he reduced the Grand Hotel formula to its lowest terms by having most of the important action take place in a telephone booth. The booth, in the lounge of a Manhattan theatre, becomes a convenient place for an escaped murderer (Richard Barthelmess) to hide while waiting to shoot the man responsible for his capture...
...losing $1,000 every day. Against it was not only Bennett's Herald but also Pulitzer's World and Hearst's Journal, each trying to outdo the other in yellowness. Then it was that Adolph Ochs introduced to New York the editorial formula which was to shape the journalistic standards of the entire country. With his new-coined slogan "All the News That's Fit to Print," he announced a "clean, dignified and trustworthy" newspaper for "thoughtful, pure-minded people...