Word: informality
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dental profession wonders where the author of the following lines, ''like a dentist trying to get his pliers into the mouth of a terrified, wriggling patient" (TIME, Dec 23, p 26) has his dental work done. Let me inform him that modern scientific methods have eliminated all pain during the operation of extraction. These nasty unfavorable comments, which the author seemingly takes absolutely unjustifiable inasmuch as they are untruthful and have a detrimental influence on the innocent reader...
Surely TIME'S intelligent and informed Religion editor could inform the foreign department that an ex-Catholic who has not communicated for years and who has openly attacked the Church can no longer be described as a Catholic without flat inaccuracy. To be a Catholic, as TIME knows well, is to be a member of the Catholic Church, and this membership is voluntary, not racial, nor an irrevocable product of onetime membership. Hitler is a de facto apostate Catholic, and his status is properly describable only as that, or simply as "ex-Catholic...
...pass a bill embodying the Townsend Plan at the coining session? Yes. . . . No. ... In the issue of The National Townsend Weekly of Dec. 30 we will publish either your answer to this questionnaire or that you failed to answer. Please be assured that we desire only to correctly inform our followers of your attitude...
...Government are facing. . . . "Last April I stated what I have held to consistently ever since-that it was the hope of the Administration that by some time in November of this year we would substantially end the dole. ... It gives me a certain satisfaction to be able to inform you, and through you the nation, that on Wednesday, two days ago, there were 3,125,000 persons at work on various useful projects throughout the nation. . . . This result constitutes a substantial and successful national achievement. Slums Demolished. "Within sight of us today-just around the corner-" President Roosevelt paused significantly...
...other at sea could work out some sort of gentlemen's agreement in restraint of their trade. The British thought that something might be done: 1) to limit the size and armament, but not the number, of various classes of naval vessels, 2) to have each nation privately inform the others of the tonnage it intends to build so that no one need overbuild out of fear of being caught napping in the naval race. Exit Bigwigs? Though the British plan will be presented to the Conference, the Conference itself will not be the kind for which the British...