Word: meanly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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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...
Right down these steps and turn to the left. Yes, that's the Same Jerry's you've heard so Much about. B. & M.? Oh, that's Boston and Maine. What does it Mean? Oh, it's a sort of Sandwich with a little Jelly and Peanut Butter and Cheese and Honey and a Fried Egg on it. Do with it? Why they Eat it of course. No, they're Not crazy; they're just Harvard men, who like to be Different as Well as Indifferent...
...Coat that fellow is wearing. No, it is not His Own. What does that matter? It might as well be. It is his Roommate's. There are Nine of them, All Told, who room together. His roommate the one who Bought the fur coat, I mean, felt he Had to have it to Keep Up with Everyone Else. Now it is All he can Do to keep up with the Coat. He didn't Mind buying that Car to live up to the coat, but it does seem a shame that he can never get Coat and Car Together...
...Striped Tie on that fellow. Don't look Now. He Knows we are talking about him. He Always knows when people are talking about him. That tie Means something. All ties like that Mean something. No, I do Not know what that Means. But it shows he has Won something, or been Elected to something, or Something like that A man with a tie like that is always a Marked Man. The only man More Marked, so far as I know, is a man with a Noose about his neck...
...Harvard is so huge and widespread and complex that no Freshman can stand in one place, and with his eyes upon one spot, say "This is Harvard." And I greatly doubt if anyone else can. What I want to find is something eminently symbolic which in my mind will mean Harvard, prue and simple...