Word: patronizer
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...visible protests have been a series of Mother's Marches, in which women and girls often with babies in strollers, walk two by two chanting repeatedly the Lord's Prayer and Hail Marys. They march to neighborhood churches to pray and sing hymns, sometimes kneeling down to statues of patron saints to pray for intercession to stop forced busing. The unvoiced desire to keep blacks out of their schools and community is obviously there, producing prayers that are suspect in their motivation and intent...
...branded on the rump by a fellow patron of the Eagle. "But part of the whole thing is the sense of danger, of not knowing what is in store...
Died. Ima Hogg, 93, spirited Houston oil heiress and arts patron whose benefactions to the Houston Symphony, which she helped to found in 1913 after abandoning a budding career as a concert pianist, and other cultural causes made her the doyenne of Lone Star society; of complications after a fall suffered while traveling in London...
...Wealth of Nations went through five editions in his lifetime at a price equivalent to $65 a copy-many thousands of copies a year are still sold today-and won him a comfortable sinecure as commissioner of customs in Edinburgh. He was able to tell his aristocratic former patron, Statesman Charles Peter Townshend (whose stepson he had tutored), that he no longer needed the heavy subsidy that Townshend had been paying him in order to get by. More important than the money were the plaudits of his fellow intellectuals. It was already possible to say, as the British writer...
...Multimillionaire Artist Bob Graham, who acts on the conviction that all the world's a stage. Big Jim, Boo Boo and the rest of the Doo Dah gang are actors getting paid $450 a week to portray gangland characters from the Roaring Twenties, primarily for the entertainment of Patron Graham-and anyone else who happens by. So far, this strange amusement has cost Graham some $600,000, with no end in sight...