Word: nourishment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...state that the purchasers of the books were, like the late Lord Leverhulme, merely on the lookout for pictures with which to nourish their childish minds and that they cared little for literature, basing your assertion on the sale of a Thackeray first edition for $6. Has it occurred to you that the Thackeray might be worth only $6 ? And certainly you can have no objection to printing correctly the names of Messrs. Thomas Rowlandson and Henry Alken, two of the greatest caricaturists of all times...
Stevenson need not take all this too personally, wherever he is. He is only the latest person chosen to nourish the joy that lies in being shown that, in actual fact, the idol's feet are of a very crumbly clay. In due time, he will come into his own again. The true Stevenson will at length emerge, a man somewhat between the idealistic angel against whom Mr. Hellman has delivered his broadside, and the opposite conception which he himself has delineated...
...others is the situation far graver in that it involves the integrity of the news columns, which in New York fare on the whole free from advertisers' and other privileged pressure. ... If journalism is a profession then the sole business of the 'business side' of a newspaper is to nourish the 'editorial side...
...course, the food isn't especially good. There is something wrong with it, the best of it. It fills but it does not nourish...
Moscow food : " There is something wrong with it, the best of it. It fills but it does not nourish...