Word: patron
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Actually, there is no way in which an architect who designs country houses can sign his work with his style. Every patron has some notion of his own, every site is different. Yet Delano and Aldrich, now that they are to their branch of the profession what Cram and Ferguson or McKim, Mead and White are to theirs, are generally allowed a fairly free hand in their designs. They prefer to arrange, not the house alone, but the grounds and gardens which go with...
...Work is, or was, a bland, trusting, optimistic soul, full of cheery conversation and good spirits. Solicitor Patterson was his own choice. He had him appointed in 1926 by President Coolidge-a typical smalltown lawyer-politician from the Midwest, born and raised in Iowa, taken to Washington by a patron (Roosevelt's Secretary of the Treasury Leslie Mortier Shaw), experienced in the work of the Department by two years there (1906-08) as a junior attorney, further trained through holding offices as mayor, judge and state senator in South Dakota. In June 1927, when Sinclair served notice...
Middle Seventeenth Century. Writer-folk had always filled him with awe: he patronized a hack-writer till the scurrilous wag wrote a lucrative burlesque on his patron's foppish existence. King Charles thereupon gave Orlando escape as Ambassador Extraordinary to Constantinople though Nell Gwyn regretted that such a pair of legs should leave the country...
Philharmonic faces predominate on the new board as they do in the band. Type faces on the new board: Harry Harkness Flagler, onetime patron of the Symphony, is president of the new Board of Directors; Walter Damrosch, onetime Symphony batonist, is "guest conductor" under the combine regime. Of the Philharmonic group there are Clarence Hungerford Mackay, who is chairman of the Directors; Mengelberg and Arturo Toscanini, conductors; Sir Thomas Beecham, guest conductor, and Ernest Schelling, conductor of the children's concerts...
...adoration of Saint Francis and the service of the poor. It was in laying out the ravishing body of poor Miss Annie Spragg that she beheld upon it the miracle of the Stigmata. The sadness of Annunziata's life was turned to joy at this sign from her patron saint...