Word: catered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Faced with the statement that perhaps those in the show business should attempt to elevate the tastes of their audiences rather than cater to them, she replied, "You and I know better...
...German espionage was rife in the French Army. To obtain a scapegoat and to cater to anti-Semitic factions, Capt. Alfred Dreyfus, able Jew, was accused by the high command, tried, convicted, sent to Devil's Island. The question shook Europe. After five years the Dreyfusards won. Capt. Dreyfus was retried, found guilty "with extenuating circumstances," pardoned by the President. In 1906 he was formally declared innocent. He fought for France in the War, gained the rank of colonel, still lives in Paris...
...smaller bank operating on more of a personal contact basis. So, after long consideration, and with the assistance of the tycoons mentioned above, he got together $7,000,000 for a surplus and sold $7,000,000 capital stock and formed Commercial National. It was designed to cater to persons who still regarded $1,000,000 as a considerable sum and to corporations not yet large enough to be viewed with alarm by the Federal Trade Commission...
...national conventions of both major political parties were covered by A. P. correspondents from every state, to cater to sectional interest...
...those educators in charge of preparatory schools which cater definitely to the large eastern universities, however, this continued academic supremacy of the public schools should provide some cause for questioning the efficiency of their present system of instruction, for there can be no doubt that this is the basis of the difference...