Word: informality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Responsive to your letter of December 22nd I am happy to be able to inform you that Collier's Weekly has no intention of publishing an article on football such as was brought to your attention...
...pursuant to his much derided attempt to inform the press of its duty to support the administration, the President has told the public that it should not criticize his postponement of arbitration with Mexico because he does not believe it "knows the facts". What the facts are which justify the so-called policy of the Administration in its semi-hostility to Mexico seems to be a question too erudite for common knowledge. Those that have been revealed, are not much more conclusive than were Kellogg's astounding accounts or a Central American "Bolshevist hegemony". They consist for the most part...
...Junior League. He appears in expensive cafés, twirling his native lasso, topped with a wide-brimmed sombrero, upholstered in furry, wild-West leg-clothes, a sight for any romantic heifer. Helen's aunt snubs him in her most patrician manner until a group of nobles inform him that he is, in reality, the long-lost heir to the throne of Eldorado. Much against his democratic inclinations, he kings it for a while over "that Eldorado tribe," mangling the traditions, making love to his Helen, and lording it over the aunt. In order to marry the lady...
...asks is so patent that no Catholic ever thought of giving it. "Why does the Roman Catholic Church he asks refuse to grant a divorce to a man and woman who have lived in civil wedlock; but instead (italics mine) grants an annulment, of which one effect is to inform the unhappy pair that they have been living together in an unmarried state?" The Catholic Church grants no divorce, that is well-known. Neither does it grant an annulment. It announces that a marriage is null, when it is null, an entirely different thing.... The Rota gives an average...
...requested, by Representative La Guardia of New York, to ask Secretary Kellogg to inform it of the origin of an Associated Press despatch which was allegedly inspired by some one in the State Department. The despatch talked of a "Mexican-fostered bolshevist hegemony intervening between the U. S. and the Panama Canal...