Word: purveyors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Then Stephen Leacock Esq. (not so much the purveyor of "Nonsense Novels" as the Professor of Political Economy), moved by the Ancient Dame's merry gesture, gave his "Canadian Ec.A." cuts for a month and thought audibly about "College Dormitories." To be sure, his tongue would persist almost suavely, in finding his cheek, and his left eye indulge its habitual wink, but for the greater part of two pages Professor Leacock voices irrefutable solemnities...