Word: patronize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...suffered yet another blow. With the government beginning to look into the once-secret and tax-exempt expense accounts that businessmen used for geisha parties, 20 of Japan's leading firms issued an ultimatum to their employees: no more parties, except for gullible foreigners. "Japan," says one oldtime patron of the Sumida houses, "is the land of the vanishing geisha. In the end they will wind up as purely tourist attractions-like the Navajo Indians." The plain fact is that the stylized coquetry of the classic geisha is no longer fashionable. "Frankly," said one Japanese businessman last week, "they...
...gutter genius who lives in a rotting houseboat on the Thames and has painted some of the most outrageously great pictures of his generation, is released from Wormwood Scrubbs prison, where he has just spent a month on charges of "uttering menaces"-he had threatened to cut out his patron's liver, or something of the sort. He trots over to the nearest pub, puts the bite on the barmaid (Kay Walsh), a middle-aged drab with a face, as Cary expressed it, "as blank as a sanitary brick." But she observes that Guinness is nothing but a "dirty...
...obscure the view through our windshields with suspended St. Christopher replicas to win the protection of a patron saint," said the Rev. Martin L. Goslin of Seattle's Plymouth Congregational Church, "but how much do we do for a moral frame of mind? Assuredly we are called upon . . . not necessarily to enjoin people to turn the other cheek, but more appropriately to turn the other fender...
...arrived in Paris from his birthplace in Lithuania, his taste was for the classic Greeks. His early works won the praise of the aging Rodin. Then Mexican Painter Diego Rivera took him to Montmartre to meet Picasso. Soon Lipchitz was the kid cubist, friend of Painter Juan Gris and Patron Gertrude Stein, and flat broke...
...Empire (or as the up-to-date British call it, the Commonwealth), and even from behind the Iron Curtain--head for the Thames to complete for the ten different cups. Admission to this unique event is by invitation only--and royal invitation since Her Majesty the Queen is the patron of the regatta...