Word: informality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...HONOR TO INFORM YOU WITH PLEASURE THAT TODAY AT TWELVE TWENTY SIX HE STARTED ON HIS DIRECT FLIGHT TO MEXICO...
...eggs fried with red and green peppers, coarse bread, and steaming coffee. As the last morsels disappeared their jailer entered. He had waited until after breakfast, he said, so as not to spoil the young men's appetites. Since they had breakfasted, however, it became his duty to inform all four that they would be led out into the prison garden later that morning, and stood up one by one before a firing squad...
...group of bankers that their loans to foreign countries might well complicate this country's foreign relations a) by being used for military or monopolistic ends or b) by interfering with the borrowing nations' public debts to the U. S. The bankers at that time agreed to inform the State Department of projected loans in advance, so that the State Department might or might not express objections. The bankers acted voluntarily. There was no compulsion upon them nor did the State Department pretend to any legal right in its previewing of their private doings...
...confidence that is pathetic to me, who already knows its destiny, you are setting out a new tree. My pride in my college will not allow me to silently observe a repetition of the episode. I beg of you, unless you already know the perpetrators of this outrage, to inform me through the columns of the CRIMSON as to where I can talk with one of you unobserved. Very truly yours, A Friend...
...messages subject to censorship, his next dilemma was to warn his government of the approaching Japanese declaration of war. This he did by sending an ingenious, uncoded telegram, so harmless in appearance that the Allies let it go through: "My engagement to Miss Butterfly expected hourly. Please inform parents...