Word: formulas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Though he was flabbergasted at the turn of events. Secretary Stimson saw a ray of hope in Ambassador Morgan's friendly relations with the new junta. Perhaps by a neat diplomatic formula the junta could somehow be construed as a perfectly legal continuation of the Luis government and therefore not require fresh recognition...
...witch ride madly astride her broomstick, pausing only to tickle the nose of a raggedy boy waiting to be fattened and baked into gingerbread. The climax came when his yellow-haired sister saved him with the wave of a magic juniper-branch and a hocus-pocus formula, when together they pushed the witch into the oven stoked for them. For children no moment of the performance approaches this supreme one in Engelbert Humperdinck's Hansel und Gretel...
...that the revolutionaries held Commander Harold Grow, U. S. citizen, commander of the Leguia air forces, and were threatening to court martial, perhaps execute him. While President Hoover and Statesman Stimson decided nothing definitely, it was gathered that if Grow were freed the U. S. would devise some diplomatic formula which would construe the Cerro coup as constitutional within the terms of the Hughes doctrine...
...leaders found one important difference between the present and other Kurd revolts. Kurds in the present uprising had money, modern arms. Other tribes not usually embroiled in the periodic Kurdish strivings for liberty were fighting against the Turks too. While Turkish military commanders proceeded with their tried and true formula in these affairs- burning villages, ruthlessly exterminating men, women and children-Turkish diplomats accused Persia of backing and even fomenting the Kurds. Persia swore innocence, and last week the Turkish officials made more interesting accusations. The real cause of the trouble near Ararat, they said, was not the Kurds...
Little Accident (Universal). The Elizabethans borrowed from old Latin and Greek plays a comic formula in which an arrangement of young lovers is shuffled, after difficulties, so that each character comes out at the end with a different partner. The formula has been successful in every later generation of the theatre whenever playwrights could think of new devices for causing suspicion, love and mistaken identity. In this instance the device is the birth of a child to the first wife of a young man (Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.) who is about to be married a second time. It is a homely...