Word: inform
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...technicalities. Hanfy is a professional publicity man and he can recognize a form letter when he sees one. He can distinguish between what is President Conant's personal signature and what is not. And he surely knows that if President Conant wanted to change his attitude, he would not inform Hanfy merely by a letter asking for a gift. But the real point is that even if Hanfy did not realize the letter was a mistake, he was asked for one thing and he offered another. There is certainly material difference between support of the Tercentenary Fund and the prize...
Thence, goodby to the little bird beside me; and I backstage to see Mr. Hampden, who, having a massage did ask me wait. So, I to talking to a pretty one and did comment on her performance but was sore at my heart when she did inform me she was not "in the performance." Whereupon we both did laugh...
...recite it. Recently I saw that Battle Creek subscriber-resident, and he told me of the occurrence and the use that was put to the "Plan." Also, he has secured a number of copies of the real "The Perpetual Prosperity Plan," which may be used to better inform such as may be interested in the Battle Creek Congressional district. Smart readers of the "Perpetual Prosperity Plan" will recognize it as satire. About the other type of reader it makes little difference. I wrote and published the "Plan" last June as a josh. Perhaps it may be good politics...
Upon being told by the nearest British civil servant, he exclaimed, "Indeed! Do you actually inform me that that is the inkstand of His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs? I am accustomed to a silver and crystal inkstand. This appears to be of braass and glaass...
Meanwhile Soviet news organs also slued completely around to inform Moscovites that persons who oppose Christmas trees are no longer the virtuous Old Bolsheviks and the stern Heroes of the Revolution they were fortnight ago, but are now despicable "Leftwing oppositionists...