Word: benefactors
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During one of the first visits to Neverland, Jackson invited the boy and his brother to stay in his room but insisted they first get permission from their parents. The boy says his parents agreed. Did they believe that Jackson was the sinless benefactor he has always proclaimed himself to be, or were other forces--ignorance, celebrity fever, avarice--at play? Over the next two years, the boy, his mother and his younger brother and older sister were stay-over guests at Neverland. Jackson lavished gifts and attention on them and provided them an SUV and rides in limousines. Gradually...
...role as Greer Garson's daughter-in-law in Mrs. Miniver. Her wholesome but refined screen presence graced some of the '40s best movies, including Alfred Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt and William Wyler's The Best Years of Our Lives. Still, she was fired by her benefactor Samuel Goldwyn for refusing to don swimsuits for publicity photos. "I'm just not the glamour type," she said...
...Greer Garson's daughter-in-law in Mrs. Miniver. Her wholesome but refined screen presence graced some of the best films of the '40s, including Alfred Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt and William Wyler's The Best Years of Our Lives. Still, she was fired by her benefactor, Samuel Goldwyn, for refusing to don swimsuits for publicity photos. "I'm just not the glamour type," she said...
Lebanon’s pro-Syrian Prime Minister Omar Karami resigned on Monday amid massive anti-Syria protests in the streets of Beirut, spawned by last month’s assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri—a benefactor of the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) and an opponent of Syrian involvement in Lebanon...
...some of our number succumbed to the temptation of the dance floor and others fell victim to the pull of the (disappointingly poor quality) domestic beer selection--c'mon, America makes better than Miller and Bud--the rest of us found ourselves drawn to the portrait of Commons benefactor and namesake Katherine Bogdanovich Loker, which graces the rooms western wall. In her eyes, where once there was disappointment and shame at the squandering of her generosity, we saw something new--hope...