Word: patronism
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...Place of Patrons. It was a show calculated to arouse the same "strong attack of nostalgia" that had inspired Rathbone to stage it. To conservatives who might question the art quality of the packet-boat china, menus and bills of lading that Rathbone had interspersed among the river canvases, Showman Rathbone had a commonsense reply: "The first job is to get the people into our museums. The future of art belongs to them and not to the recherche group of the last century. The age of the private patron is gone, and the mass support required to take its place...
Stanford has two patron saints, who are the university's prime benefactors. The first of these is, of course, Senator Stanford. He is regularly honored on Founder's Day, a Stanford holiday. The other is Herbert Hoover, the school's leading alumnus. Long a member of the Board of Trustees, he sponsored the Hoover Memorial Library of War, Revolution, and Peace, the university's land-mark...
...Patrick's Day, Mrs. Berger has a recipe for cooking nettles. Ireland's patron saint is said to have "blessed this prickly plant which we despise or don't even recognize as it grows around us . . . He had known it by its romantic name of Ivar's Daughter, and he blessed it as useful to man and beast. Gather young nettles for yourself in March of early spring. By all means wear gloves. Serve them as fresh vegetables...
...slightest. Mulling Harry Truman's stubborn friendship for his military aide, the Washington Post had a suggestion to make: ". . . it seems to us that the time has come for the general to demonstrate his friendship [in turn] for the President... by resigning and so sparing his patron any further embarrassments...
...patron of the Bleitz Camera Co. started out on a loan basis, ended up buying $1,000 worth of equipment...