Word: patron
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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They learned that it had been loaned to the Museum by noted art patron and collector Jacob Epstein*; of Baltimore, onetime street peddler, now a millionaire. His agents had discovered its whereabouts. He bought it at the sale of the owner's estate in France, brought it to the U. S. in August without attracting publicity, without even disclosing how much he had paid...
...confused with famed Sculptor Jacob Epstein (see below). †Not to be confused with noted art patron and collector, Jacob Epstein of Baltimore (see above...
...finished they realized that he had pronounced a judgment as scornful as it was scathing upon a white man who is popularly supposed to be loved by Negroes- Author Carl Van Vechten of Nigger Heaven, long a cat-fancier but lately a collector as well of Negro art, a patron of Negro poets, a frequenter of Harlem cabarets and apartments...
...Chicago, anent the proposed opera house, Samuel Insull, patron, said: "In my absence abroad much was said about the great opera-house plans. This great enterprise already stands completed in the imagination of many. I wish it were all true, but there is still much work to be done and a matter of some $20,000,000 must be provided...
...mechanics last week set about installing, in a Broadway booth, ten of the latest models of a four-year-old invention of one F. E. Gray of Philadelphia. Four years ago Mr. Gray devised a new place to drop nickels- the Sodamat. From the original Soda-mat all a patron got for his nickel was an ice-cream soda or other-soft drink, mixed with mechanical generosity, despatch and cleanliness; automatically spouted into the glass after the plunk of the coin. On the second Sodamat model, there were electric lights. The next carbonated its own soda-water. The models installed...