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Word: informants (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...glad I don't like oysters," said the famous young lady, "because, if I did, I'd eat 'em and I hate 'em." The Copley Players' latest offering, entitled "The Oyster" as the subway billboards inform all and sundry, leaves one in the same frame of mind. Here are hundreds of people in the audience whooping away for dear life at a certain play that leaves this reviewer cold; the awful possibility that he might see a certain amount of humor in it and so be tempted to see other plays of the same kind has given him no peace...

Author: By J. A. F., | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 5/20/1926 | See Source »

...used that those who desire them should set their Albums as soon as it is possible, as it is necessary for the Album Committee to inform the printer as to how many are required...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Senior Albums Still Available | 4/13/1926 | See Source »

Seasoned travelers continued serene and unstirred when informed last week that the Municipal Council of Paris has at length sanctioned an increase of 25% in Parisian daytime taxi fares and has stepped up the night rates by 150%. The travelers reflected: 1) That the day rates are so ridiculously low that to increase them by one-fourth will not seriously inconvenience foreigners. 2) That the night rates have long ago become a mockery, the drivers simply holding out for what they can get. Early in the evening they often inform prospective fares that they are on the way to their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Taxi Rates | 3/8/1926 | See Source »

With this sanction in his pocket, Herr Stresemann considered the German application so nearly an accomplished fact that he telegraphed the German Ambassador at Paris to inform Premier Briand that Germany would actually apply to the League within three days. Late despatches reported that the Premiers of the Federated States of the German Republic were en route to Berlin, there to indorse formally the German application, the actual text of which was to be drawn up at a Cabinet Council presided over by President Hindenburg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Cologne Evacuated | 2/15/1926 | See Source »

...have two purposes in asking for such information Fast. I am preparing an oration on the "Independent Man" and I need material. Secondly, the independent men here are now in their this year of organization and participation in student activities and we are making a special effort to inform them of Independent activities elsewhere...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Seek Traces of "Independent Men" at Harvard--Orator Preparing Philippic on Fraternities Writes "Dean of Men" | 1/29/1926 | See Source »

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