Word: patron
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Meta-Mold Aluminum Co. of Cedarburg, Wis. is a corporation with an artistic soul. Its board chairman, Otto Spaeth, 57, is not only a shrewd and successful businessman but also a noted art patron and collector. In 1952, when Meta-Mold decided to build a new administration building, Sculptor Alexander Calder was called in to help design the lobby for a mobile that Calder named the "Otto-mobile" after Board Chairman Spaeth. Last summer Meta-Mold tried another experiment. It put on a show called "Art for Everyone-a purchase exhibition," in which 50 rented paintings and sculptures were offered...
...players later in life. But some of those players had apparently come from the household of one Sir Thomas Hesketh of Rufford, who was not only related to Thomas Savage, one of Shakespeare's Globe Theater partners, but also to Sir Alexander Houghton, Shakeshafte's patron. In his will, Keen found, Houghton had recommended his players to Hesketh, and from there, the link to the Earl of Derby was clear...
...Taming of the Shrew ("I . . . freely give unto you this young scholar that hath been long studying at Rheims"), and it would have been there that he would have met the exile Thomas Houghton, one of the college's benefactors and the Catholic brother of Shakeshafte's patron, Sir Alexander Houghton. The step from Rheims to Lancashire, says Keen, would then have been logical, for Houghton was known to have "an obstinate Papist" in his house...
...long and misty prehistoric past that proved a limitless source of myth and legend. But the American past belonged entirely within the historic era. After celebrating their independence, Americans . . . discovered that having banished King George they had lost King Arthur, and along with him a host of patron saints and familiar deities...
...time. Sacred text has been found to sanction isolationism and, within a very brief interval, interventionism and internationalism as well . . ." Meanwhile, the Lincoln legend has been bent to accommodate almost every shade of opinion. "At the same time [that] the Communists were claiming him, Lincoln was also hailed as patron saint by the Vegetarians, the Socialists, the Prohibitionists, and a proponent of Union Now-not to mention the Republicans and Democrats ... As Senator Everett Dirksen once said, the first task of the politician is 'to get right with . . . Lincoln...