Word: patronized
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...employer takes it for granted that he has a funeral to go to, gives him the day off. The clerk goes for a stroll in the park, gets mistaken for the playground commissioner, then accidentally gets the job. He keeps it until he finds out that his political patron is using him as a blind to sell defective ladders and trapezes. Then he stops making advances to the patron's wife (Lilyan Tashman), resigns his job, gets a black eye, totters home in time to appeal to the sympathies of his spouse...
...suspicion on all the Fair's rowdy, stay-up-late activity, Major Lenox Riley Lohr, the hard-bitten onetime soldier whom the Brothers Dawes made the Fair's general manager (TIME, May 22), enacted a 1:30 curfew. On none of the three following nights was any patron of the hot spots evicted before 3 a. m.. The concessionaires complained that the only chance they had to make hay was while the stars shone. To them, President Rufus Cutler Dawes replied...
...proper doesn't know it exists. The gay and picturesque "festas" for which the North End is famous are held on week-ends, Friday evening through Sunday, by societies of former residents of various towns and villages in the old country, mostly in Sicily. They celebrate the village's patron saint and include concerts, processions and evening illuminations. The society of San Giueppe di Riesi will celebrate July 28-30 and that of San Giuseppe di Pietra on Aug. 4-6. Others who have not yet set a date are those of Maria Santissima della Cava di Pletraperzia, San Calegro...
...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...