Word: patronized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Guadalupe near Mexico City. There were noise, dancing, eating & drinking. From all parts of Mexico and Latin America had come 50,000 pilgrims. Ultimately, 100,000 were expected. Indians, mestizos, pure-blooded aristocrats-every class except government (antireligious) officials -were present to do honor to Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe, patron saint of Mexico. With smashing crescendo of clanging bells, electric illuminations, masses, there will be celebrated this week the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe. There is an especially composed Guadalupe Hymn. Next year has been officially designated Guadalupe Year. In the archdiocese of Guadalajara, all female infants baptized...
...Slang which H. S. Stone & Co. printed, Clyde J. Newman illustrated. No longer most up-to-date of U. S. slangsters, but wealthy, still unmarried, Author Ade winters in Florida, lives as a gentleman farmer in Brook, Ind. Golfing enthusiast, football fan, he is known as Purdue's patron saint...
French babies are not brought by a stork; they are delivered by a rabbit in a cabbage patch. But in Alsace, where German folklore survives, the stork is still the solemn patron of the childbed. France, whose declining birth rate is a national problem, viewed with alarm a last week report on stork nests in Alsace: In 1927, there were 270; in 1928, only 150 were occupied; this year, only 53 in all Alsace...
...believe that Lu likes the idea largely because she will be able to become the benefactress of some unknown man, anybody. From her chrysalis the big-hearted glowworm emerges as a good fairy. She picks up a telephone directory, looks up the name of a lawyer, tells her patron that he is her husband and that she will expect the patron to do the handsome thing...
Familiar to most big cities is the fly-by-night exhibit of gruesome or sleazy photographs which opens in a vacant store, boldly advertised as an "appeal to justice" or a "lesson in morality." Usually the pictures are unpublished newsphotos of current crime. The patron may be lured in by "free admission," then coaxed to pay 25^ to see an extra-ripe display behind a curtain; or he may be held up at the exit to contribute to a "fund for the impoverished victims." Into such a "crime prevention" exhibit on Los Angeles' South Main Street two months...