Word: patronizer
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Police guards, along with the presence of two priests at the head of the march, and a Spanish-American woman carrying a large picture of Our Lady of Guadeloupe, the grapepickers' patron saint, prevented any outbreak of violence...
...What we want to do now is try to hold the status quo on the patron age refund and not put much money into expansion," Morrill explained. Even so, he admitted, there may have to be serious consideration this March of a one per cent cut in the present refund rate of eight per cent on charge purchases and ten per cent on cash...
Died. Sarah Mellon Scaife, 62, art patron and philanthropist, heiress to a share in the estimated $2.5 billion Mellon industrial and banking fortune, who in 1941 established the Sarah Mellon Scaife Foundation (one of six similar Mellon foundations which have given away over $300 million), through which she donated $26 million to Pittsburgh universities, museums and charities; of a gastrointestinal hemorrhage; in Pittsburgh...
...people kissed (cheek to social cheek) who had never kissed before. As everyone knows-if reminded-Christmas Day itself marks the birth of Christ. But it is sometimes hard to remember in the weeks before. Instead, the chief big man seems to be that fellow Santa Claus, the patron saint of giving. Pillowed and pastyfaced, he chortles from a myriad of department-store thrones, and pasteboard likenesses beam from drugstore windows. Under his spell, the battle cry in thousands of U.S. homes becomes...
Puzzling Paradox. For the signing ceremonies, Lyndon corralled 100 Congressmen and 300 artists, scholars and entertainers-a gathering illustrious enough to please the pickiest patron...