Word: informality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: First I wish to inform you that I am not a subscriber to TIME, for heaven for bid that I should sink so low. I am sorry to say your magazine must come into our home, since my husband is a sub scriber. Therein lies the bone of contention in our happy home. Every time Mr. Barger reads TIME, he will sit up, chuckle to himself and exclaim, "I would rather give up you than give up TIME. I get so much pleasure out of that magazine." Immediately there follows a battle of words. It is beyond my comprehension...
TIME'S "Manhattan," "famed," "one," and similar expressions have long annoyed me. Why inform us that the daughter of "famed" brewery-owner John Smith has married "one" Jim Jones, or words to that effect? Why not just call the young man "Jim Jones" and let it go at that? More than likely he belongs to the same social strata of society as the lady he marries. Such terms sound snobbish and affected to unassuming American ears. And they do not sound like the best of English either...
...Southern Chinese area dominated by three groups of "Chinese Nationalists''† was extended northward last week by the advance of their several armies toward Peking. The reaction of U. S. President Coolidge to this situation was to inform reporters that the removal of the U. S. Legation from Peking down to the seacoast at Tientsin, or even 650 miles southward to Shanghai, was contemplated. The reaction of John Van Antwerp MacMurray, alert, pugnacious U. S. Minister at Peking, was to keep the cables busy with code messages which legation officials privately said were appeals for instructions to stand...
...Confirming our conversation of this morning, I have the honor to inform you that I am authorized to say that the President of the United States intends to accept the request of the [Diaz] Nicaraguan Government to supervise the elections of 1928; that retention of President Diaz during the remainder of his term is regarded as necessary for the proper and successful conduct of such elections, and that the forces of the United States will be authorized to accept the custody of the arms of those willing to lay them down, including the Government's and to disarm forcibly those...
...made to work." Concerned only with the facts of the case, Author Dorsey politely performs introductions to Visceral, Genetic, Somatic, Social, Cultural Behaviour in successive chapters. The book does not argue, it states. Its aim, the aim of the "Things-to-Know Series" to which it belongs,! is to inform. It is a sound book, a sensible series...