Word: patronism
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...refusal of an arbitrary young heiress to marry the foolish Lord Islington. To escape the marriage she persuades the young Prince Paul De Morlaix to pose as her husband. Everything works smoothly until suspicion necessitates the two young people to occupy the same room overnight. The sophisticated musical comedy patron will not become too hopeful over such a situation. As is proper and fitting, the young prince spends an uncomfortable night on the sofa and the climax of the embarrassing situation is breakfast...
...succession came the campaign against the "Wise Men of Zion" and the voyage of the "Peace Ship"-two ventures which had little to do with the turn-outs of one million cars by 1915, five million by 1922. And with the ten millionth, Ford turned incongruously collector of antiques, patron of country dancing, defender of an earlier civilization. Mr. Merz considers it an irony that a civilization precocious in mechanics should be puerile in philosophy. His epitome of the later-day Ford: "The old scene vanished. And a man who had helped destroy it by contributing ten million cars...
...spoken since. Last week a personal autograph letter was sent by M. Poincaré to M. Clemenceau, inviting him in the name of the French Government to attend the funeral of Marshal Foch; but Le Tiger replied to Le Lion that he had already taken leave of Le Patron. French poilus called Foch Le Patron ("the boss") out of homage and respect, reserving the merely affectionate nickname of Le Papa for bumbling old Marshal Joseph Jacques Cesaire Joffre...
...Burbig in a foreword, "vas ritten by mine own hends, s'halp me Goldberg." After one has read a few of the "sturries etc" one begins to wonder. Was Milt Gross name originally Goldberg? If not, why does Mr. Burbig invoke that name? For certainly Milt Gross is the patron saint of this book, the captain under whose banner its writer has drawn his pen and whose exploits he endeavors, insofar as in him lies, to emulate...
Giuliano was only a mediocre Medici. In any other family he might have been superb. But the Medicis were a flamboyant line, running to both seraphic and sulphurous extremes. Giuliano's father was Lorenzo the Magnificent, mighty patron of the arts and writer of bawdy ditties, a politically high-minded ruler whose actions were tyrannous. Giuliano's brother was Pope Leo X, a dilettante and politician who palely reflected his father's glories. Giuliano himself had the aquiline features and dark locks of his tribe. But he did not have the spouting energy. He met and married...