Word: patronized
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Germans living in Switzerland that no German and no Swiss could be found to do this deed. The instigator himself had to do it-the Jew! "You, Wilhelm Gustloff, enter the ranks of our nation's immortal martyrs!" concluded Adolf Hitler. "Gustloff will be the patron saint of all Germans living abroad. . . . We do not choose murderous methods! I must proudly state that our movement has never murdered and has never attacked anyone...
After he had declared Gustloff a patron saint and after Saint Gustloff had been cremated last week, the Laborite Daily Herald of London professed to have learned from Berlin that as soon as the Olympics are over a decree confiscating all property owned by Jews in Germany, and exiling all Jews from Germany, will be signed by Adolf Hitler to avenge Wilhelm Gustloff. This press officers at the Realmchancellory denied...
...exhibition in Mexico it would be news. Last week Mexican Satirist Luis Hidalgo held an exhibition of his brilliantly colored little figures in Manhattan's Arden Gallery without a single critic recording the fact that that round-faced swart young man is a direct descendant of the patron saint of Mexico's independence, fiery Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, who captured the Spanish prison of Dolores in 1810, declared Mexican independence, prematurely, and got himself imprisoned and shot for his pains...
...pentecostal "gift of tongues" so that his word was understood everywhere. In his last 20 years this Dominican was believed to have performed 58,000 miracles, or eight a day. He was canonized in 1455. The Dominicans who conduct the Manhattan church were piously pleased to receive their patron's relic. The Very Rev. William A. Marchant, prior and pastor of St. Vincent Ferrer's, estimated the reliquary to be at least 450 years old. But who the "personal friend'' was that brought him this invaluable antique, Father Marchant would not tell...
...week later. If still unclaimed, the prize is increased and the drawing repeated. The value of Bank Night to the exhibitor is obvious: it helps fill his theatre on off nights, permits him to run cheap films to packed houses. It evades most State lottery laws because the patron does not pay for his number and may conceivably win the prize without buying a ticket to the theatre, by waiting outside while the winning number is announced by a loudspeaker in the lobby, then running in to claim his prize...