Word: patronized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...side -to the second son of famed Jason (Jay) Gould. Day later an announcement was inserted in the Manhattan Press: "With those 'forces for good' grief stricken at the death of Edwin Gould stands the Harlem Eye & Ear Hospital, thanking God for the life of this patron saint of children. ... In memory of such a man all must doubly strive to give to children as he did-service sublimed by love." Apple-cheeked, fuzzy-bearded, benign, Edwin Gould unlike a dozen other descendants of his famed father made no copy for Hearst's sensational Sunday pages...
...When in 1920 Pope Benedict XV looked about for a patron saint for airmen, he had not far to seek. At Loreto, overlooking the Adriatic, stood a Holy House which, by legend, was the onetime residence of the Virgin Mary in Nazareth. When in 1263 the Turks threatened it with destruction, a squadron of angels is supposed to have picked up Mary's house and flown it to a place near Fiume, thence to Loreto. By the Pope's decree the Blessed Virgin Mary of Loreto became "special patron with God of all things aeronautic...
...having destroyed its rarest heroine as a political expedient: if she was, it is guilty of having canonized her for more amiable reasons of the same general sort." Of The Seven Sleepers of Ephesus: "One is inclined to think that almost all Christians now have taken them for patron-saints." Joseph of Cupertino used to fly like a bat; his fellow-Franciscans were afraid of him but the common people adored him, and he could tell "whether or not they were immoral by the way they smelled...
Opera director, whose sister was the late famed Art Patron Lizzie P. Bliss, and whose father was William McKinley's Secretary of the Interior. Disliking cats, Bride Parkinson had been sympathetic when her servants complained of nightly prowling & yowling. She decided to act when some cats leaped through her windows while she was entertaining dinner guests. She got a trap from the International Cat Investigating Society (to which Lawyer Herrick, then New York City's Park Commissioner, had sent a letter of encouragement when it formed in 1931 to agitate for licensing of the city...
...could buy, them he drilled and disciplined as soldiers had never been disciplined before. He won battles, and became the hero of his countrymen. But battles palled, he was not amused. So he built Sanssouci, which in its Baroque lushness reflected his Northern, Germanic, emotional temperament; he became the patron of Bach, whose rich music fitted his rich taste; he imported Voltaire, who satisfied the needs of his rational, concise, superficial intellect; he tempted from France and Austria the most beautiful dancers of Europe to be his favorites and paramours...