Word: informativeness
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When Giulio Gatti-Casazza returns to Manhattan from his summers in Italy, the long-established routine has been for him to summon musical reporters and inform them of the singers he has engaged, the operas he intends to produce the coming season. The picture in his dark, musty office has always been the same: Gatti settling his great bulk in a swivel chair, fumbling for the ribbon which holds his pince-nez, reading his announcement aloud in slow, painstaking English. When questions were asked, he would stroke his beard, answer warily or not at all. A grave "good afternoon" regularly...
From the law office of McAdoo & Neblett, Colonel William Haynie Neblett hastened to inform the Press: "All she has is a monthly allowance given her by her father. This and all future aid will be denied her if she goes ahead with her wild plan to marry a man whom her father has never seen." From a call on Mrs. McAdoo, who divorced the Senator last summer (TIME, July 30). Colonel Neblett emerged with the news that Ellen had "disappeared," that her mother was "prostrate in bed." Said he : "I don't know where she is but it seems...
...entitled to equal consideration in America. How long can it be expected merely to wonder? Question such as these, and many others, must be met squarely by the administration if another period of violence such as that pertaining throughout the country last summer is to be avoided. Merely to inform labor in grandiose manner that communism is incompatible with American traditions, and that under fascism it will be regimented by the state to a point where it will have no liberty of thought or action is insufficient unless there is a substantial improvement during the coming winter. Unless unemployment...
...asked in what paper it appeared, and he said it was the issue of that day. After careful perusal of the paper the Herbarium note was indeed found, hidden away in the "Through The Years" column under the 1909 date-line. Promptly all haste was made to inform the news-hawk that he was reading so solemnly the words of a CRIMSON which first graced this world just twenty-five years ago that day. And loud was his cry as he hling up he 25-year old receiver, and turned again to the carnal world of the present...
...school? They are individuals who are campus leaders and high in scholarship. In the summer these men spend their vacations abroad in native homes and attend government conferences. During the regular school session they hold five conferences of their own to which outside authorities are invited to argue and inform. The result of the establishment of this school is that Princeton leads in the number of men accepted for the United States Foreign Service...