Word: formulas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...criminal was being jailed by the U.S. "I am the kind of man," explained Berman, "who believes everything that comes from abroad." The suave Kio stood ready to show how unwise that was. Several workmen rolled a big cage into the ring. Inside was Adolf Hitler. Mumbling his magic formula, Kio lowered what he explained was "not an iron, but a silken curtain." When the curtain rose once more, the workers had been moved inside the cage, and outside, mocking them, stood Hitler. On hand to congratulate the Führer on his escape were a U.S. capitalist and Winston...
Flamingo Road is not even paved with good intentions. Jerry-built out of odds & ends of cliches, it is an unashamed reworking of a formula that has been familiar to Joan Crawford's fans for a couple of decades. The tired old plot is in no way improved by Joan's new hairdo, which is blonde and unbecoming. Sydney Greenstreet, with his lashless, inscrutable stare, is no whit different from what he has been in a dozen similar roles. As usual, he gets the dirtiest end of the dialogue. Sample, as Joan pulls...
Shaken by this sudden hiking of Red terms, after both sides had previously agreed to talk over Mao's surrender formula (TIME, Jan. 24), the Nationalists' Li had conferred with his generals, then sent his imploring telegram to Peiping...
...senior this year (he is a Navy veteran), Wally wears his swimming fame lightly, but diligently grinds through 2,000 yards of daily practice. Iowa Coach David Armbruster says his star pupil has "a natural, aggressive heart," and better yet, "horses under the hood." Wally's own formula, he says, is knowing when to pull out when other swimmers are relaxing, and "usually that's enough to sneak me in." Swimming that way, he managed to sneak in ahead of ex-Yaleman Alan Ford at London last year; but he has yet, swimming that way, to sneak inside...
...only pretzel money from his 150 songs. He lived by playing the saxophone in Chinese restaurants and beer parlors. In 1945, after he had peddled and pushed Till the End of Time into a hit (with help from Chopin and Tunesmith Ted Mossman), he decided that he had the formula: "Writing the song is only 10% of it; the rest is purely business...