Word: patriarchates
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Long a wealthy estate owner and patriarch in Recanati, near the Adriatic city of Ancona (he grows grapes, cures hams and plays boccie), Beniamino Gigli had left his home only to bid goodbye to his audiences-particularly, he said, to Americans. "I come not for the money or the artistic success to myself," he said, before taking off on a tour of major eastern cities. "I come for gratitude and for addio...
...Watson called it. He changed the company's name to International Business Machines, expanded still more. His high, stiff collars, his aversion to smoking and drinking, his vast store of aphorisms became trademarks of IBM to the outside world. Inside his company, he operated like a benign patriarch. IBM's workers were among the best paid in industry, had other benefits that few companies had. At company banquets, Watson liked to lead his employees in singing company songs such as his Hail to IBM* anthem. Every executive, both big and little, became a polished speechmaker, and all dressed...
...system," wrote the rural elders, "has become a nightmare to families with daughters." Local swains were asking as much as $1,300 in British gold sovereigns* in addition to housefuls of fathers' furniture as the price of their devotion. "These fathers are now deeply in debt," said one patriarch...
...streams of tourists bound for the pleasure domes of the Riviera were as remote from him and his world as so many swallows in the sky. Dirt-poor as all his neighbors, Gaston lived like them close to the soil and the wind and the rain, a hard, dour patriarch who ruled his little family with an iron hand and neither asked nor granted favors. His justice, like his life, was simple, ruthless, but at least straightforward...
...first contingent of troops from west of the Hudson to join George Washington's Continental Army. George Michael, the third of seven children, was born on the nourishing farm of his father, Guy Leader, three miles south of York. As with most Pennsylvania Dutch families, Patriarch Guy dominated the family circle, and George still has a deep admiration and respect for his father...