Word: benefactor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...after his Allentown visit: "His [i.e., Hess's] office did pay my expenses of $1,000 to travel to Allentown for the story." Said Boyle: "I have mentioned Hess four times on subjects of feature-news interest." Only the Journal-American's O'Brian spurned his benefactor: he mentioned neither Hess nor the store in his column until Nov. 3, when he broke the story of Hess's having paid $10,000 to get a contestant on a TV quiz show for publicity purposes...
...collaborate with the unknown young Hart on Once in a Lifetime, there started a gentle comedy of errors almost as funny as the play itself. If Kaufman hated anything, it was cigar smoke and emotion; throughout their working sessions Hart puffed huge cigars and kept insisting on thanking his benefactor, not understanding why Kaufman kept rushing to the bathroom for refuge. On the other hand, Hart was a compulsive eater (success has since cured him of the affliction), but was too shy to admit his ravenous hunger; while Kaufman operated on their scripts with innumerable scalpel-sharp pencils, Hart would...
...Journey of the Corpse, the hero spends years of his life earning a huge ransom demanded by barbarians for a captured fellow townsman. He deserts his wife and child and starves himself to raise the money. Not until the ransom was paid did the benefactor meet the goad to his sense of sacrifice, a man who had once done him a casual favor...
...Hasidim, Rabbi Joel Teitelbaum. leader of Brooklyn's famed Williamsburg Hasidic community, is "king of all rabbis, holiest of all Jews, greatest benefactor of our generation." Last week, the aging (73), frail, militantly anti-Zionist rabbi was in the Holy Land, rousing new support for his private war against the state of Israel...
...judge asked each of them. Puzzled, each replied, "No, sir." Advised Baptist Walker: "The Supreme Ruler of the Universe is God. He is the one to whom you should direct your appeal for comfort and advice. I commend him to you as one who can be a great benefactor to each of you if you call on him humbly and prayerfully...