Word: caterings
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Such an institution has become more and more inevitable, for a reason implicit in remarks made last week by Gustavus A. Rogers, Manhattan lawyer, who addressed 60 prominent Jews at the Bankers' Club: "We will cater ... to the Jews who have been barred from Christian schools for non-scholastic reasons...
...Committee on Relations with Schools will be a sort of liaison organization, especially designed to cater to those in the process of transition. It will in no sense be a machine for proselyting, although there are sure to be some who will read such a purpose into its creed. On the contrary its functions will be studiously non athletic. It will confine itself to strengthening the ties between school and college and thus strive toward the enviable unity achieved by the English system...
...discouragement of trusts is nothing now, to be sure, but it is a pleasant novelty to study the basis of the present manifesto. It will be remembered that Roosevelt wielded his "big stick" against the steel and the packing interests in something of an ostentatious manner. Always quick to cater to popular notions, the President found a new road to the people's heart in his campaign against the trusts...
Webster's New International Dictionary says that as a verb "pander" may mean "to cater," which is about the sense in which it was used in the passage cited. As a noun Webster says it may mean "an intermediary; an interagent," but adds that this meaning is "rare...
...like zebras?either white horses with black stripes, or black horses with white stripes. We know they are not horses and some, people think they are assess but each ass can vote; and one of the inconveniences of republican government is that U.S.-born citizens "think it necessary to cater to these votes...