Word: informants
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Plympton Street to investigate. A heated colloquy with the genial President followed. I finally agreed not to disappoint my public, in return for which the CRIMSON gave me a subscription at the special rate of five dollars, a press ticket to the University Theatre, and a promise to inform its readers each week whether or not I was to be at home on Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock and whether or not I would be glad to see members of the University at that time. So here...
...notice that you have used paintings of Artist S. J Woolf. It occurred to me that you migh. be able to inform me where I can purchase a copy, suitable for framing, of one of his pictures. The picture is the one that appeared in the New York Herald Tribune Magazine of Sunday, July 31, 1927, and shows an immigrant family arriving in New York harbor in front of the Statue of Liberty. The Tribune was unable to assist me in the matter. Possibly through your connection with this artist you can assist...
...pick out the name of a woman who has lost some article of value and call her up "long dis tance collect"; 2) inform this lady that her lost article has been found and will be returned if she will telegraph the necessary round-trip fare to the finder at Asbury Park, N. J.; 3) go to the telegraph office; 4) collect the money; 5) vanish...
...method would be to scan the lost and found columns of a Manhattan newspaper and then take five simple steps: 1) pick out the name of a woman who has lost some article of value and call her up "long distance collect"; 2) inform this lady that her lost article has been found and will be returned if she will telegraph the necessary round-trip fare to the finder at Asbury Park, N. J.; 3) go to the telegraph office; 4) collect the money; 5) vanish...
...many of his most beautiful creations for 20c. He submitted the "Erl-King" to Breitkopf & Hartel, Leipsic publishers. They, suspicious of the MS. from Vienna, wrote to one Franz Schubert of Dresden, Royal Church composer, inquired if he had submitted the song. The answer: "With the utmost astonishment I inform you that this cantata was never composed by me. I will use every endeavor to discover who has so discourteously sent you this bit of patchwork and expose the scoundrel who so misused my name." The "patchwork" was written in 1816, accepted for publication...