Word: informant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Navy Department deeply regrets to inform you that your son, Ensign Philip R. Gazecki, United States Naval Reserve, was lost in action in the performance of his duty and in the service of his country. The Department extends to you its sincerest sympathy in your great loss...
Last-punched CBS's canny News Chief Paul White: "If your cablegram implies that you feel a correspondent has no right to inform his home office of his working conditions, then it is obvious that a correspondent does not have sufficient freedom of speech to enable him to work intelligently...
...sixty of the best orchestra musicians he could find, hired himself a hall, and set to work. The conductor and musicians were trouble enough, but it was the hall that caused the real headache. It seems that in renting it out to the Orchestra, the owners had neglected to inform the hall's former occupants of the change. Since these former occupants were prize-fighters who used the balconies for workouts, and were in the habit of carrying some of their more battered compatriots across the stage to the dressing-rooms, no little trouble ensued. A collective sigh of relief...
Thus in case incendiary bombs fell on Harvard Hall during a lecture trapping students under fallen being and plaster and starting from the warden's first job would be to inform the report center. If the damage were not sertena, the College would cope with it alone. If outside help were needed, the head Harvard warden would notify the city authorities...
...next time you go to a sedate dinner party in old Back Bay, don't be surprised if that immaculate young man begins to proffer whispered comments on your dirty collar. He may even inform you of the dandruff on your dinner jacket. Take a good look at him before you get too embarrassed...