Word: medici
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...That Borgia profile ill becomes a Medici...
...Bartholomew's Day in 1572 French Catholics, egged on by Catherine de Medici, began to slaughter 50,000 Hugenots...
...name was John L. Severance, but his role in Cleveland was Lorenzo de' Medici's. A bearded, bespectacled man of placid temperament and steady habits who had inherited a vast fortune from his father, Standard Oil's Louis H. Severance, he made up for an otherwise uneventful life by making himself Cleveland's most lavish patron of the arts. As a patron, he had a tycoon's audacity...
James Laughlin IV is a sort of Lorenzo de' Medici. Scion of a steel mill family, he has centered his interest since graduating from Harvard in 1937 in sponsoring young, unknown poets and writers and giving them a chance to see their works in print. For some four years his annual anthology, "New Directions in Prose and Poetry," has contained some of the more interesting, if startling, contributions to modern literature. No ordinary publisher would accept them, for chain poems and their ilk are not designed as money makers. Laughlin can afford, if necessary, to take a loss...
...Terrible Tribune. In his 27 years as publisher of the biggest full-size U.S. newspaper (circ. 1,076,866), Colonel McCormick has acquired such titles as "Lord McCormick, the Earl of Wheaton," the "Duke of Chicago," the "Midwest Medici." Once called "the greatest mind of the 14th Century," he has inspired at least one high-spirited skit...