Word: patronism
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...Aquitania (Cunard)?Sao-Ke Alfred Sze, Chinese Minister to the U. S.; Sir Joseph Duveen, art patron; Arne Borg, Swedish swimming champion; Mrs. B. Schinasi, wife of the famed cigarette manufacturer; Hiram H. Walker, distiller of "Canadian Club" whiskey; Miss Abby Rockefeller, daughter of John D. Rockefeller, Jr.; Samuel Insull, Chicago Opera patron; Ada May, late of Lollipop...
SAINT JOAN?Bernard Shaw trenchantly becomes the patron saint of Joan...
...rapidly rose to a place of prominence in the New York financial world, soon becoming president of the First National Bank, a position now held by his son. He also has been a director of over a dozen of the country's leading railroads. He has been a patron of the fine arts and in 1916 presented Regnault's famous painting "Salome" to the Metropolitan Museum. Columbia University has also benefitted by several of his large gifts...
Rodman Wanamaker, patron, Maecenas of modern U. S. Art, presented a huge evening of endemic tone-fancies in the Grand Court of the John Wanamaker store. The soloists were Marie Sundelius of the Metropolitan Company, soprano, and Leopold Stokowski, conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra, who appeared on this occasion as an orator. The resources of the great Wanamaker organ, a military band, and a large chorus were also called into play...
George Washington Browns, and there are many such in the South, will feel not a little piqued that their beloved hewer of the cherry tree has posthumously become the patron of the "Society for the Prevention of Calling Pullman, Car Porters 'George'." The inference is inevitable to a superstitious mind that the ghost of the great Father has risen in Danish wrath to object to the promiscuous use of his forename. A religious touch--which may smooth over the unmistakable insult to the present holders of the title--is added to the movement by the fact that Senator Moses...