Word: informant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...become nervous. If things have gone wrong, do not inform the patient, his family or friends that an error has been committed. It is not necessary to misrepresent the condition, but it is easy to evade direct replies until you can determine the end results...
...view the social disunity, the economic disorder and look back on last week's barometer for A.S.U.C. card sales but we honestly wonder when the University and also the State of California will come to be regarded as apart from Hollywood. It also seems about time that someone should inform the East that Trojan football glory died a sudden death in the fall of 1933. Then there are those other unimportant items such as the University being the largest in the world and one of the five Class A universities in the United States...
This dual aim to inform readers solemnly on the problem of crime & punishment, and at the same time raise their hair with tales of gangster grue ran through 100 pages of Prison Life Stories. Director Sanford Bates of the U. S. Bureau of Prisons contributed an earnest description of "Our Island Fortress, Alcatraz." Two pages later came a lurid account of "Ohio's 'Bathtub Crime,' " complete with a provocative sketch of a murdered woman in the nude. Cheek by jowl with a learned discussion of "Scientific Crime Detection" from Assistant Superintendent H. J. Martin of the Royal...
Week before the House vote Representative Brewster went up to Maine promising to return in time to speak for the "death sentence." When he did return on the morning of the vote, it was to inform Mr. Corcoran that he had discovered himself in a "peculiar political position" in Maine and could not make the speech. Dismayed, Mr. Corcoran arranged to meet him and Dr. Gruening in Statuary Hall just before the vote. There Maine's No. 1 Power foe made the astounding revelation that he was not only not going to speak for the "death sentence...
...Tiens, M. Vlaminck," gravely observed the senior judge. "I will give you confidence for confidence and inform you that mere nakedness does not shock me either...