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Word: pander (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...appeal and a tang of alcohol make so palatable for the public?a typical Broadway morsel?that was dished up last week in a Federal court in Manhattan. The protagonists were the Government (in the person of U. S. District Attorney Emory R. Buckner) and Earl Carroll, theatrical pander. The issue: to convict Mr. Carroll of perjury in sworn testimony he gave to two Grand Juries last winter when the Government investigated a Washington's Birthday party given by him in his theatre?a party at which, according to some of the 500-odd "nighthawks" present, Mr. Carroll had filled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: In Manhattan | 5/31/1926 | See Source »

...must object to your loose and inexact use of the word "pander" in your issue of Sept. 21, in which you refer to "Thomas Cook & Son, and other panders of rubber-neckery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 23, 1925 | 11/23/1925 | See Source »

...term "pander," as you should have recalled, is derived from the proper name "Pandarus." Need I add that Boccaccio, Chaucer, and Shakespeare all represent Pandarus, a son of Lycaon and leader of the Lycians in the Trojan war, as an unmitigated pimp, who procured Cressida for the dissolute Troilus? To a scholarly mind your use of pander in place of "agent" and without the connotation of lasciviousness is intolerably careless. Thomas Cook & Son are no more panders than is a magazine such as TIME. Neither attains to the requisite taint of immorality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 23, 1925 | 11/23/1925 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 23, 1925 | 11/23/1925 | See Source »

...Knopf who has befriended and encouraged many to whom smug society turned a deaf ear and an unseeing eye, they have started a new magazine, The American Mercury. While in the Smart Set, perhaps to keep a fire in the editorial office, they were forced at times to pander to the tastes of readers who demanded undisturbing fiction, in their newest venture with a publisher like Knopf behind them they need serve neither fiction nor soothing copy of any kind, but may scratch and sting to their heart's content...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE GADFLIES CAGED | 1/4/1924 | See Source »

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