Word: formulas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...disinterested upholders of American ideals who have joined pocket-books in opposition to the Tugwell-Copeland Food and Drug Bill are slowly but surely completing a masterpiece in the history of effective lobbies. Following the accepted formula, these patriots first set up a tremendous wail, protesting in the name of all the well known "American rights" and an individualism whose ruggedness apparently claims the right to poison with governmental approbation. Failing this first move, they have now stooped to the more effective course of preventing public mention of the topic until wavering congressmen can be persuaded that it is worth...
...Baking powder" was, of course, a slip. The formula should have specified baking soda (sodium bicarbonate) which, many physicians believe, helps to cure a cold by "alkalizing" the system...
Students. But great masters are only half the Conant formula for Harvard's future. He wants the best apprentices too. Under Abbott Lawrence Lowell, scion of a rich and ancient Boston family, it could be argued that Harvard had become a "rich man's college." James Conant was born in unfashionable Dorchester, Mass., son of a photo-engraver. He has made himself an intellectual aristocrat. Under him Harvard's favored sons will be, beyond argument, the rich in brains...
...become Harvard's head he replied: "I guess it's my sense of adventure." His mother thinks the same qualities which made him a great chemist will make him just as great a university president. Says she: "He won't get excited. Everything works out by formula: he'll compound his formula for running the university, and then stand over while it develops into substance...
...More Ladies (by A. E. Thomas; Lee Shubert, producer). Nimbly written around the tried & seldom true formula of a philandering husband who is brought to his senses by a dose of his own medicine, this comedy is compact of witty lines and stale quips, hilarious situations and brummagem tricks. There is the sly, wise grandmother in frumpy clothes (Lucille Watson) who speaks a pure nightclub patois and gets tipsy. There is the joke about flowers with celebrated names planted in the same bed. Some one even gets a chance to remark that Adolf Hitler is "all swelled up with...