Word: patron
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Near Paris, racing men assembled last week to make St. Martin* their patron saint. Said Mgr. Perie: "St. Martin was an excellent horseman...
...Martin, famed Roman Catholic bishop of Tours (372-400) is also regarded as the patron of drinking and jovial meetings, as well as of reformed drunkards...
Brown would make no prediction, saying his knowledge of the subject was no greater than that of the ordinary cinema patron...
...Mercury has brought to birth such writers as James Stephens, who, it is implied, might never otherwise have found a patron. It has printed the best poetry and fiction; if it has used few stories and fewer lyrics, that is because there have been no others good enough...
...down the slope. Little jets of steam hissed from the mountain's side. The 10,000 inhabitants reluctantly prepared to leave. White surpliced priests marched chanting part way up the volcano. In supplication and prayer they bore relics of St. Vitus, born in Sicily, or St. Leonardo, their patron saint...