Word: purveyor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...week. The collection is now twice as large as it was when started by the late Professor F. S. Childs many years ago. The Chapmen, from whence the book gets its name, existed several centuries ago and travelled all over the country visiting town and hamlet. He became the purveyor of literature, and was the only means whereby the people could get literature of any sort...
...purveyor of that nostrum has something more valuable, to himself, than its ingredients. He has a precious name. He calls it the "Golden Treatment," and thereby he trades quackishly on the fame of the late Dr. Leslie E. Keeley. Keeley Cures (a few still exist) loudly but dubiously used the double chloride of gold in "curing" drunkards...
Such teachers have been all too rare in our colleges. They are the possessors of wisdom and understanding, the men who have not forgotten that when they were young they looked upon a professor as a combination of a tyrant: a dullard and a purveyor of unwelcome information necessary for passing examinations. Hence they have made it a special practice it might almost be termed an art-of reaching out to shake the students out of their distrust and to substitute zest for lethargy. "Copey's" success has been reflected in the accomplishments of so many who passed under...
...many a family will retain its comical pet, at once entertainer of children and purveyor to their thirsts. A healthy common nanny can produce 4 Ibs. of milk a day, or about 1,500 Ibs. a year. If she is a well-bred milker the year's tally may be around...
...Crenshaw, Yale '25: "There are too many graduate schools and not enough college. Also too many bootleggers, the first thing that assaulted me in Cambridge was a purveyor of hooch...