Word: patron
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since Dr. Bratt holds that food counteracts the effects of alcohol, Swedish restaurants may dispense liquor with meals after 12 noon, but not more than 2½ ounces to a patron before 3 p.m. Afterwards, it becomes possible by ordering an indefinite succession of meals, to tope an indefinite amount...
...House of Worth. Founder Charles Frederick Worth came to Paris from London in the middle of the last century, found himself the man of the hour in the attempt of the Empress Eugénie to restore the magnificence of the First Empire. Eugénie became the patron of the young Englishman. To his shop in the Rue de la Paix came not only Eugénie herself but Charlotte of Mexico, Maria Pia of Portugal, Elizabeth of Austria. Only two reverses came to Founder Worth. Victoria of England would have none of him. And Eugénie, expecting...
Died. Eugene Levering, 82, onetime (1878-1921) president of the National Bank of Commerce (Baltimore), and after its merger with the Merchants National Bank, chairman of the board, trustee and patron of the Johns Hopkins University, ofttime contributor to the Anti-Saloon League; in Baltimore. His twin brother, Joshua Levering, was the Prohibition party's nominee for the presidency...
...Betty Hanna" granddaughter of Mark, is Washington's (D. C.) most successful young business woman. Her shop, the Betty Hanna, numbers many a patron of wealth and distinction. Great was the distress, therefore, of fashionable Washington when it learned, last week, that Mrs. Richard Porter Davidson, alias shopkeeper Betty Hanna, had been robbed of jewels worth $20,000. Her Negro gardener was suspected...
...there is such a thing as the Society of St. Tammany, founded in Revolutionary times by a New York upholsterer named William Mooney to give the bourgeoisie a club comparable to the aristocratic Society of the Cincinnati, to which only New York's fine families belonged. An Indian patron-saint and Indian rigmarole were adopted as a protest against Toryism. The objects of the Society were and have been benevolent-making immigrants comfortable, for example. The activities of the members were and have been political. After comforting immigrants, one can enfranchise them and show them how to vote...