Word: formulas
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Prohibition injected itself into the campaign in the form of independent Wet candidacies after Mr. Brown had weasled on this issue with a declaration for a referendum and Messrs. Grundy and Davis had mumbled the old formula about "law enforcement." The Association Against the Prohibition Amendment supported Thomas Wharton Phillips Jr. for Governor and Francis Hermann Bohlen for Senator on a Dry-law repeal platform...
...often graduates wish they had kept their textbooks to brush up on a language, to find a certain formula, to locate that line of poetry...
...Richards wishes to test the formula...
...program of its latest production issued by the Dramatic Club, there seems to be quite a stir about something called "Our Policy". In view of the numerous doubts which have arisen over the contents, not to say the existence, of such a formula, documentary evidence of this nature will unquestionably be appreciated. But if adherence to this policy entails, as the most recent efforts of the Club would seem to indicate, the selection of plays merely on the basis of novelty in the most limited sense of the word, then appreciation may perhaps be tempered with regret...
...factory; whose high character and uncompromising ability have made him notable among cinema directors. They hired to prepare the film manuscript Maxwell Anderson (What Price Glory, Saturday's Children) and George Abbott (Broadway, Coquette). These three sat down not to dramatize the book, but to translate it. Flouting formula they retained the spirit of the novel...