Word: purvey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When it attempts to purvey good advice, the cinema is often at its worst. There's Always Tomorrow is sanctimoniously stupid. Not even Frank Morgan's smooth characterization can make Father White seem anything but a feeble illustration borrowed from a domestic-advice column. The rest of the cast of There's Always Tomorrow are unpleasant nonentities, engaged in difficulties as boring as they are unreal. Worst shot: young Henry White (Alan Hale) arguing with himself...
...League of Nations suffered from other mundane circumstances. Mrs. Wilson could not liquidate the League of Nations to save its prestige from declining but last week she decided to liquidate Gait & Bro. for that purpose. Not willing to compromise with commercialism, she would not sell to anyone who would purvey cheap goods under the Gait name. William H. Wright, her store manager, intimated that a buyer willing to operate the store as "ethically" as it has always been operated might still get it at "a very advantageous buy" but he added (in announcing a liquidation sale of the firm...