Sentence:  New York is becoming a frontier town all over again." Now, in the puritanical frontier town in Arizona where I spent a life puzzling out good-and-bad, one was permitted to be a <WSD>deep-throater</WSD>, or a phony, or— left unchecked— even a publisher. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  An anonymous informant; a Deep Throat.