Word: informativeness
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...Earl and his party had proceeded from Jerusalem to Nazareth and Haifa in a sort of triumphal tour. At all points, he was met by enthusiastic Jewish colonists; Arabs appeared to inform him that they lived peacefully with their Jewish neighbors...
...Poems. Narratives inform the body of Robinson Jeffers' verse. Tamar, of which the above are the opening lines, unrolls a tragedy of incest, Hebraic in origin (II Samuel xiii), Greek in treatment. Tamar Cauldwell, slender virgin in a rotting house, makes her brother her lover, takes another lover to shade the fruit of her sin. The ghost of old Caukler's incestuous sister?returning through the trances of a fat psychic aunt, Stella, and the gibbering of an idiot aunt, "poor Jinny" ?torments Tamar, tells her a curse is in her blood, inescapable, unclean. Tamar, fearless and fire-souled...
Under MISCELLANY, Mar. 9, 1925, you inform an interested public of a knifing match following a "jamboree given by the Oberdam Social Club (Irish)." Your logic may be strong but your line of reasoning is most inconsistent. A fight; ergo Irish! But did it occur to you that the Irish rarely use knives in a fight? The club referred to is not Irish. It is composed entirely and exclusively of Americans of Italian blood. Statements such as the above might be excused if made deliberately; but if you are interested enough in the club to write about it, you should...
Dogs are expert in judging human quality. With a single sniff at a man's trouser-leg, they determine his social standing; one leap against his chest is enough to inform them of his character. It is more difficult fora man to judge of the excellences of a dog. He requires paraphernalia-ropes, lights, leashes, a specially constructed pen, an exhaustive training; often his fellows gather in great packs to observe his judgments, which they confirm with shrill murmurs or deride with rasping growls. Last week such a display took place in Manhattan at the annual dogshow...
...night of Feb. 7 that Tschoudnovsky, accompanied by Red soldiers, went to the prison to inform the captives of their immediate execution. Admiral Kolchak was in his cell, fully dressed under a fur coat, and wearing a Cossack hat. He was expecting rescue at the hands of White forces under General Kappel, who was not far distant...