Word: patronism
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...Near Paris, racing men assembled last week to make St. Martin* their patron saint. Said Mgr. Perie: "St. Martin was an excellent horseman...
...Martin, famed Roman Catholic bishop of Tours (372-400) is also regarded as the patron of drinking and jovial meetings, as well as of reformed drunkards...
...tenth also under Conductor Nikolai Sokoloff and Manager Adella Prentiss Hughes. There was a birthday concert at the Auditorium with the program which was given on Dec. n, 1918. There was a birthday dance for the musicians and their friends. There was a birthday luncheon for principals and patrons, with wrist watches and eulogies for Conductor Sokoloff and Manager Hughes, and a cake with ten candles. Patron John L. Severance cut the cake. Composer Deems Taylor of Manhattan, guest of honor, spoke crisp Taylorisms...
Brown would make no prediction, saying his knowledge of the subject was no greater than that of the ordinary cinema patron...
...Mercury has brought to birth such writers as James Stephens, who, it is implied, might never otherwise have found a patron. It has printed the best poetry and fiction; if it has used few stories and fewer lyrics, that is because there have been no others good enough...