Word: formulas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...snatcher" as well as a 'legger, gets paroled to track them down. Neatly circumventing the Hays organization's antipathy to gangster pictures, The Mad Game would be an even more satis factory revival if it did not revive also such details of the old gangster picture formula as characterization that depends solely on mannerism. Typical shot : a girl reporter (Claire Trevor) arduously rolling her own cigaret...
...since this formula has never been tried before it would be a mistake to judge it on the record of a few days, though it does indicate clearly the difficulties involved...
...punt, a pass and a prayer'' is the formula by which Michigan has remained at the top of the Western ("Big Ten") Conference for the past three years. Last week, before a Big Ten record crowd of 95,000, Michigan out-punted, outpassed, needed no prayer to outplay Ohio State with simple maneuvers...
Earl Ellicott Dudding explained that the "sporoblast" was a serum concocted from the leaves and sap of a cherry tree. He announced that he would start a chemical baby farm after Miss Chemical Dudding was born. Said he : "If I gave out the formula, half of the doctors in the country would start bootlegging chemical babies. They would use this as a money-making scheme, and I will not stand for that. I have developed this system after many years' research in an effort to pro duce a new race, free from sin and crime...
Finally, there is the confiscation of American property by the Soviets. The Soviets may have some formula for working this out through cooperation with the American government. Thus credits are to be extended by the R. F. C. undoubtedly to the Moscow trading corporations for the purchase of commodities. Already a cotton loan is in process. So it may be that financial adjustments, taking care of American claimants, will become part of a general financial plan which will follow formal recognition...