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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-ED...
The advance volumes of "The Great Oxford" do not give "bathysophical," but if one reasons from the analogy of "bathymetric" and "bathygraphic," it is not hard to get the meaning of "bathysophical." To one versed in his Greek roots it should give a keen pleasure to have this adjective applied...
TIME New Haven, Conn. The News-Magazine Oct. 16, 1925. Sirs: I read TIME to my grandchildren. TIME, Oct. 12, Page 6, Column 3, reads : "Exclaimed M. Caillaux with weary irony." Of course, I don't know, but is not the satire? pointing Is out not of irony the...
"Goethe did not write for the chosen few. His work was not intended for a select circle of aesthetes or for men with surpassing intellectual endowments. He wrote for you and for me and for every man who feels within him the desire to give his life meaning and spiritual...
"The fact that the seventh day was stated to be a day of rest has no bearing upon the length of other days. I have no doubt that the man who made that chapter of Genesis had in his mind days of twenty-four hours each, but I reserve for...