Word: patronized
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...phlogiston," which departed from them when they burned (as soot, for example). Thus, when he found that a candle burned more brightly, and mice thrived, in the atmosphere created with his container of heated mercuric oxide, he thought this atmosphere was "dephlogisticated air." Fortunately, while touring Europe with a patron, he met the Frenchman, Lavoisier, and told him of his experiment. Lavoisier later worked out the modern theory that combustion ("fire") consists in the union of oxygen with another element, usually carbon-a discovery nearly as important as Newton's detection of gravity through the fall of an apple...
...from his Cheyenne verandah, strode down the asphalt street. White-haired, senectissimus of all U. S. Senators, Mr. Warren had recently completed his annual summer report on appropriations (TIME, July 26). Mr. Warren had public respect, not only as a Senator, businessman - many had that - but as a substantial patron of the drama. Perhaps he recalled, as he passed the Masonic Temple, how 20 years past he had endeavored to bring Hamlet and The Second Mrs. Tanqueray to Wyoming by building the Capitol Avenue House. It had burned, although Gentleman Gambler "Old Tom" Heany had for a time made...
...tragedy is experiencing crises of incontinence in public or crowded places. Now it is at an occult buffet supper-after stuffing his poet's paunch with other people's helpings, he addresses his advances to his hostess, an elderly madam. He lands in the street. . . . Again, his patron tenders him a banquet. He refuses to join in the consumption of bourgeois food and makes his repast on wine from the highboy. His ejection follows a violent attack of temperament during which bottles crash on servants' skulls and the refectory is strewn with pulverized objets...
...Wounds of Christ. The reigning pontiff: . . . Since our immediate predecessor has assigned this saint, who was sent by Divine Providence for the reformation not only of the turbulent age in which he lived, but ot Christian society of all times, to Catholic organizations engaged in social activities as their patron, it is only right that our children who labor in this field according to our commands should in union with the numerous Franciscan brotherhood call to mind and praise the works, the virtues and the spirit of the seraphic patriarch...
While a ten-year-old boy played on a cornet, they elected a patron saint-Benjamin Franklin-even though the printers and the Saturday Evening Post already have his memory enshrined. Franklin played on the violin and guitar, composed a few conventional songs, and invented a long-obsolete musical instrument, the "armonica."* The musical chambermen found these facts decisive...