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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...
...older nor the younger generation could be so unanimous in a single motive. Both, it seems fair to say, were prepared to absorb as much academic and worldly wisdom as came their way. Neither was averse to a good time. The greatest difference is in the tense of the verb with which you describe fathers and sons: one got it, the other is getting it. The truth of any comparison seems to reduce itself to this: undergraduates of today are more numerous and may have to work harder than those of yesterday, but the motives and capabilities...
Either "up-anchored" or "upped anchor" is good usage. There would be no hyphen in the second case, since "anchor" would there be the object of the verb. TIME used "up-anchored" as a compound verb...
Authority for using "broadcast" as the past tense of the verb "to broadcast" may be found on page 279 of Webster's New International Dictionary, 1920. Also usage by 1,500 radio announcers in the U. S. and Great Britain and a dozen magazines representing the current radio art. The verb form was adapted 15 years ago by the U. S. Navy when a word was needed to denote wide dissemination of radio information to ships...
...Mary Reade is joking, I chuckle with her. If not, she might refer to page 939 of Webster's New International Dictionary, 1920, giving one definition of the adjective "grammatical" as "of or pertaining to" grammar. Therefore to use the word "broadcasted" as the past tense of the verb "to broadcast" is properly referred to as a "grammatical" error. A. H. MILES