Word: informality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...friction can be lessened, but not obliterated, by education of the Negro and by a less prejudiced attitude on the part of the Caucasians. Significance. In 600 pages, the volume is both readable and encyclopaedic. Professor Dowd has much to say and no reason for saying it except to inform. Unprejudiced in tone, easy in style, the book will last. The Author. As a youth in South Carolina, he chopped cotton with Negroes, played with their children, sold them houses and land. He has sat beside them in classrooms and later had them sit as pupils in his own classes...
...group in the college may enter teams in the informal league. Starting Monday, a notice will be posted in Leavitt and Peirce's window to inform those who are interested in the ice conditions on Soldier's Field rinks. On the days when it is possible to play, anyone desiring to do so may go out to the rinks where the coach in charge will see that he gets an opportunity to play. When good ice can be assured, regular scheduled games will be played...
With the foregoing brief statement of the law I have now to inform you that the statement in TIME is incorrect because it does not give a full statement of the case. That publication neglected to state at the end of the sentence, "So Miss Komarmicka was ordered deported," the con cluding portion of the Department's decision relative to her case, that, however, she be admitted by parole pending adjustment or securing the proper documents which she should have had in her possession when she arrived. Miss Komarmicka was therefore not ordered deported but was after reasonable time...
With the coming of autumn, however, Secretary Kellogg was moved to inform explicitly Foreign Minister Saenz that: 1) The U. S. considers that she recognized President Obregon in 1923, on the explicit understanding that U. S. property rights acquired prior to the adoption of the Mexican Constitution of 1917 should not be jeopardized by legislation enacted thereunder; 2) The U. S. expects (demands) that these rights be respected by the Mexican Government...
...devoted no time to answering a question which rose to the lips of many a Protestant: "Why does the Roman Catholic Church refuse to grant a divorce to a man and woman who have lived in civil wedlock; but instead grants an annulment, of which one effect is to inform the unhappy pair that they have been living together in an unmarried state...