Word: patronism
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...certain cure for St. Vitus's Dance, hideous childhood disease. Victims twitch, quiver, quake and grimace uncouthly. The posturings resemble a grotesque dance like the oldtime "shimmy" and "Charleston." During the ignorant Middle Ages victims of the disease were taken to "dance" before images of St. Vitus, patron of comedians.* It was believed that those who danced before St. Vitus would be certain of good health during the following year. Hence the general name for the disease. The medical term is chorea, which like chorus connotes dancing. Chorea, or St. Vitus's Dance, is a nervous ailment which...
...merchant who has canoed and snowshoed over a great part of north central Canada, Copley Amory, 65, rebuilt a ruined Hudson's Bay trading post as a refuge from hayfever and a base for fishing. The few Indians and whites in the neighborhood have found in him their patron in sickness and want. Serious want comes to the Canadian backwoods families about every ten years. The game upon which they depend for food and profit runs through ten-year cycles of alternate scarcity and plenty. It was to help many Canadians besides his neighbors that Mr. Amory played host...
Papa Auclair, family apothecary to the Frontenacs in France, followed his patron to the New World when Frontenac was made Governor General of New France. In Quebec he lived as far as possible the quiet bourgeois life he had known at home. A philosopher, Papa Auclair believed in good manners, good cooking; well-behaved Cécile adored him, cooked beautifully. She liked Quebec and its people, made friends with many of them: courtly and disgruntled old Frontenac; grim old Bishop Laval; cross-eyed Blinker, ex-torturer from the King's prison at Rouen; Pierre Charron, coureur de bois...
...Shanghai Gold Stock Exchange on Kiukiang Road bought silver by the simple method of selling gold. How desperate is China's state is well illustrated by the ugly rumors heard in Singapore concerning the affairs of Tan Kah Kee, great rubber, pineapple, biscuit and brick tycoon, patron of Amoy University. Once a coolie, he became a multimillionaire, is now thought to be heavily in debt, frantically trying to incorporate his private affairs...
...Wild flower and Rudolf Friml's Firefly). Conductor is Isaac Van Grove. Of the able if not world-celebrated singers the most popular are Sopranos Myrna Sharlow and Josephine Lucchese. Contralto Marta Wittkowska, Tenor Forrest Lamont, Basso Herbert Gould. Last year the Zoo Opera was in need of patrons, felt that an endowment campaign would be necessary if it was to continue. One of its two great patrons died six years ago-Mrs. Mary Emery. The other was Mrs. Annie Sinton Taft, widow of Publisher Charles Phelps Taft of the Cincinnati Times-Star, who felt unable to carry...