Word: patronism
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...death of George F. Baker Harvard has lost one of its greatest benefactors, and the Business School has lost its patron. Though not a college man himself, Mr. Baker always took a keen interest in the educational world, and his gifts to Harvard have been among his largest...
...Author. Thomas Stanley Matthews, 30, has a chin that sticks out from under a nose, eye and brow that might have belonged to St. Paul, patron saint of his preparatory school (Concord, N. H.). Whittling little verses hard as black walnuts is an old pastime of his. Once he wrote...
Again Bismarck. To crush every challenge to his power Chancellor Bruning, as soon as the Reichstag adjourned, went straight to his patron and got Old Paul to sign the most drastic decree ever issued by a German President...
George is the name of the King. St. George is the patron saint. And St. George's, Westminster, is the Parliamentary constituency in which Buckingham Palace stands. Last week two rival Conservative candidates, a regular and an irregular, contested St. George's in a by-election of the first importance. The real issue, dwarfing both candidates, was the fitness of former Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin to remain leader of the Conservative Party. St. George's is so utterly Conservative that there was no Liberal, no Laborite candidate...
...shoes out-side a door. Grown slightly more sophisticated, the talkies still employ euphemistic symbolism. In this picture it becomes necessary for an actress (Bebe Daniels) to tell a young man whom she loves that she is the mistress of an older man, his best friend and financial patron. This she does by grasping an armful of roses...