Word: cater
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Europe knows Richard Tauber as well as the U. S. knows John McCormack. The two have much in common: they are both good showmen, both fat men with infectious smiles. Both started in opera, went in later for lieder. Both frankly cater to the people's taste to their own tremendous profit. Their phonograph records are bestsellers. They are not above making sound films or capitalizing on the theme songs...
...student today is inclined to cater to this type of professor who entertains, who is stimulating and brilliant, rather than to him who pours out his knowledge abundantly, but without garnish. The two however, are not necessarily mutually exclusive. The best teacher combines progressive scholarship presented in an interesting way. These unfortunately are the exceptions, and many an entertaining course is denoted not by the subject matter, but by the name of the teacher, or his sobriquet...
...enrolment demand had exceeded Father Sill's conception of what a school body should be. Nearby, under his guidance, was founded South Kent School, with one of his graduates, Samuel Slater Bartiett, as headmaster. First South Kent senior class was graduated in 1927. Both schools still cater to families of little money,* Kent proper sometimes takes pupils free. Last week, on "The Old Man's" 57th birthday, a testimonial dinner was given for him at the Hotel Commodore in Manhattan. Joined to honor him were the Church (Presiding Bishop James DeWolf Perry of the Protestant Episcopal Church), the Universities (Dean...
...Brazil, exhausted from suffering continuous humiliations at the hands of a bad government and alive to their sovereign prerogatives, not permitting themselves to fear the bombastic resistance on the part of the government, have been able to do their duty and to enforce their own civic opinions and thereby cater to foreign respect...
...Hamilton's aristocratic theory of government, a president must, as a political officeholder, appear before the voting public as an apostle of Thomas Jefferson's Democratic doctrines. He must seem to exalt the mob's wisdom, bow to its righteous power, inflate its sense of selfimportance, cater to its emotional reflexes...