Word: formula
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...truly in your news item of November 30, "That nitre cocktails find favor among Hub's better classes." For if the formula comes from Harvard can there be higher authority...
...Butler sums it all up under an old formula: "Both school and college have in large part taken their minds off the true business of education, which is to prepare you to live, and have fixed them upon something which is very subordinate, namely, how to prepare you to make a living." Unfortunately, Mr. Butler supplies ample contradiction for himself. He regrets the fact that the elementary schools have deviated from their proper business of training young children in good physiological habits, of teaching them the elementary forces of nature, of giving them the ability to read understandingly, to write...
...Governor's Wife" took her husband and Cambridge by the ears Tuesday night, capturing both. There is no formula that can quite explain the extraordinary fascination of this Comedy of Manners (and a Woman) by that swift satirical genius, Jacinto Benavente. For three acts the little province of Moraleda, Spain, hums with petty intrigue, political and domestic; is agog with sycophancy and scandal; nothing is left out. Beauty and the Bull, colors and shrugs flashing lavishly excited and Latin, speech a sparkle and--everybody throws physic to the dogs. For this, let it be urged, is a DeCanterbury Pilgrimage...
...test holds good here. Once again advertisers have rallied round, editors have done their best with the little space left for them, contributors have laboriously given of their wit, and the whole has been by some benevolent genius framed into a well designed and effectively printed magazine. The formula, of course is old. One operatic burlesque, at least one biblical parody, seasoning in the form of an occasional lapse from good taste (if any there be benighted enough to notice such things), the conventional allusions to Mr. Cram, Terry and University Hall-these are the essentials of a routine Lampoon...
...fewer half hearted contributors joining in the quest. Surely nothing would be lost. The good drawings and clever writing of this "Spiritualistic Number" would be preserved, and presented, perchance, with other contributions worthy of them, instead of with what at times seems like back work compounded by a worn formula and dealing with a given subject. Of course, a disembodied soul bold enough to venture such advice could hardly hope for a hearing unless he haunted Mt. Auburn Street with uncommon persistence. Nevertheless if he were armed with a message in regard to National Coffee week, or Bolshevism, or some...