Word: patronized
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...fame a just punishment for his atheism, wrote "See what a hooke the Lord put in the nostrils of this barking dogge!" but unfortunately did not give details. Strait-laced Victorians tended to emphasize Marlowe's dissolute habits in explaining his early death. Because Marlowe's patron was a Walsingham, and Sir Francis Walsingham was chief of Elizabeth's highly-developed secret service, there was a theory that Marlowe had been a confidential government agent, was killed because he knew too much. If this theory could be proved it would drastically revise contemporary versions of Elizabethan literary...
...Marlowe was actually killed for political reasons, his associates were the men to do it. One was a shady figure named Ingram Frizer, once a confidence man, employed by Marlowe's patron; one was a thief named Nicholas Skeres, who was mixed up in one of the Catholic conspiracies around Mary Queen of Scotland, and finally jailed for taking part in Essex uprising against Elizabeth. The third, Robert Poley, an important figure in the British secret service, had returned that morning from a confidential mission abroad. He had become Walsingham's agent after a term in jail...
Widener is wondering, too, and very much interested in finding the answer. Desultory though it may have been to undergraduate criticism in the past, Widener now has an ear to the ground, anxious to catch the murmer of a disgruntled patron. Several avenues which might provide a solution to the problem have been suggested. First is the old recommendation for personalization. Like Grand Central Station, Widener is big, moving, and impersonal, and it is difficult to add a "homey" note to a building constructed for dignity rather than coziness. A suggestion of much more practical import, however, is that...
...than Britain's Princess Elizabeth. Nine months ago the Bureau for Press & Propaganda issued an appeal signed by Dona Carmencita to all other nine-year-olds to pray for peace and papa's victory. Beyond that she has avoided the limelight. Dona Carmen Polo de Franco is patron of the Rightist Red Cross, frequently officiates at charity bullfights...
...occasional orchestra or opera performance-are not great. Unlike Deems Taylor, who earns money by writing and radio work, unlike John Alden Carpenter, a Chicago businessman who made money in mill, railway & ship supplies, most of his life Gruenberg has been a poor musician with an occasional patron. One of these was Mrs. Alma Morgenthau Wiener, sister of the Secretary of the Treasury, whose financial arrangements with him got into the courts three years ago, when it became known that they had counted-unsuccessfully so far-on selling The Emperor Jones in Hollywood. To Composer Gruenberg and others like...