Word: patronism
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Prizewinner Gleitsmann fought as an infantryman in Patron's Third Army, came back with a drooping mustache and, "for the first time in my life-something to say in paint...
...publishers read Dublin-born Anne Crone's first novel and turned it down cold. Then an idea came to Miss Crone, 32, an Oxford graduate, and a teacher of languages in an Irish girls' school. She would send her manuscript to an old patron of Irish letters, Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron Dunsany. The Irish storyteller and playwright liked it so much that he volunteered to write an introduction, in which he calls Bridie Steen "one of the great novels of our time, not quite to be forgotten in a hundred years." With his handsome assist...
Wednesday was election day in Quebec. It was also the day of Premier Maurice Le Noblet Duplessis' patron, St. Joseph. Wednesday is Duplessis' favorite day of the week: he always tries to save his important acts for that day. After Mass in the morning, he toured all 119 polling booths in his home town, Trois-Rivières. He shook hands till his fingers cramped, greeting voters by their first names. Time & again his henchmen restrained him as he reached in his pocket for quarters for moppets: "Not on election day, Maurice." At 6:30 p.m. Bachelor Duplessis...
Under regulations drawn up in 1570 by the school's patron, Sir Nicholas Bacon, enrollment was limited to 12 underprivileged boys who had "learned their accidence without books and can wright indifferently." The rule excluded Sir Nicholas' famous son, young Francis Bacon. Parents were required to furnish their boys with a bow and three arrows and if their "child shall prove unapt for learning . . . ye shall take him away; and again, if he prove apt, then that ye shall suffer him to remain till he be completely learned...
Robert F. Herrick '90, considered by Crimson rowing enthusiasts the patron saint of our crews, got his first glimpse of the place in June, 1887, when the steamer brought him and his Freshman crewmates up the Thames to the landing. Herrick puts into words a feeling which still pervades the locale...