Word: cater
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...affairs, is pleasantly surprising. Still more so is his prophecy that in another five years blood and thunder stories will be crowded completely off the front page, and that chronicles of governmental matters will take their place. "Newspapers", says Mr. Bellamy, "have found that it does not pay to cater to the tastes of those who would rather read yellow sheets than these that present clean news, truthfully told...
...pulls himself up a few degrees to a more equal footing. The history of the world, the outline of science, digests of the world's humor, even the recent "Outline of Everything" show more or less the same tendency--the attempt to gain much in little. Even the newspapers cater to the general desire to understand all about the universe before breakfast. And the large reaction lurking in a cocktail, though sought by only the most debased, is sought with a similar, if somewhat tarnished, end in view...
...story as fast as it may, that is responsible. Perhaps this tendency reacts to make some few men proud beyond the average of their drunkenness, and so further encourages publicity. Certain it is that daily papers, as a rule, exaggerate the importance of the evil, in their attempt to cater to public taste.--The very fact that illicit liquor is so increasedly expensive prevents much drunkenness--but, it seems, Harvard, Yale and Princeton are regarded as merely one continuous "gold coast...
...downright, outspoken candidate, who honestly, openly and fearlessly expresses exactly what he believes to every group of voters on every issue, declining to dodge or evade, and refusing to appeal to prejudice or cater to class, would be overwhelmingly beaten by the candidate on the other side, who would promptly take advantage of such honesty to gather for himself the large number of voters alienated by the other fellow...
...Science can be most uncomplimentary. Art makes us bare forked animals the protagonists of the great drama of life. Science puts us in our places. That is why genealogy is an art. It takes a whole family tree to make a man, What could be better calculated to cater to a man's importance than realization that his great-great -great -great -great -great-great- great -great -great -great -great-great-great -great -great - great -great-great-great -great -great -great -great-great- grandparents were a good deal more numerous than the population of the United States? And among...