Word: informativeness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...regard to your "correction" or criticism" in the Aug. 30, 1926, issue of the TIME, "Lies," page 2, col. 2, I want to request you not to make corrections of statements and facts with which you are not personally acquainted; and also wish to inform you that they who have described the Finnish cities to you are actually liars, and stupid, as there are no fish-canning industries located in the cities, least of all in Helsingfors, which city is widely known and visited by tourists, and named "Paris of the North...
...Significance. This not only should be but probably will be one of the celebrated novels of the year. The author's real desire to interest, inform, amuse and move her reader is felt and fulfilled without visible effort. There is wit, grace, fine feeling and a style which, while lively, never begs applause. The people are so real that there will be endless discussion of who is actually who: Sculptor St. George is Sculptor Saint-Gaudens, and so on. If the fabrication of fictitious letters and other personalia are remarkable, the character relations are even more so, especially...
...much interested in the inclosed piece of information [relative to cyclones] from TIME, Aug. 30. It does not however go far enough. What happens when a waterspout crosses the equator? Does it stop suddenly and start spinning in the opposite direction ? Or does it die of convulsions? Or What? I shall be obliged if you will inform...
...would indeed deem it a favor should you inform me the mailing address of Dr. Voronoff, as I would very much like to ask him a question in reference to the above...
...William J. Locke -Dodd, Mead ($2). In Florence the most eminent art critic is, of course, king. So when lost-in-thought Professor Sylvester Gayton trips into the Pitti or Uffizi, guards jump to attention, bow low, chatter thereafter of the lucky copyist whose work he has chanced to inform with the perfect suggestion...