Word: patronizer
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...temple at Dakshineswar, on the Ganges, just north of Calcutta. The temple and its 20 acres of gardens had been built by a wealthy fourth-caste widow named Rani Rasmani, and Ramakrishna showed his disregard for caste by serving as priest there. He had no false respect for his patron. One day as Rani Rasmani was listening to his singing in the temple, the young priest abruptly turned and slapped her. He said that while she was apparently listening to his song, she had actually been thinking of a lawsuit...
...Calvillo of Mexico City, the groom swept his bride off her feet, staged a rare tableau of best-dressed romance (see cut). Animal Fair: Some 2,000 dogs which will do Coast Guard shore patrol work went into training on the estate of Joseph E. Widener, multimillionaire Philadelphia art patron and horse breeder. Into the Army for training went Gogo and Cliquot, green-eyed Cinemactress Greer Garson's Fighting French poodles. On tour with her husband, Lady Halifax visited the St. Louis Zoo, unflinchingly did the monkeyshines expected of a diplomat's wife...
...retailer "can't realize what lies ahead, since most of them have fairly satisfactory supplies on hand, but replacement difficulties will be constantly greater from now on." All this gloom got on the nerves of urbane Lew Hahn, general manager of National Retail Dry Goods Association and a patron saint of retailing. Said he indignantly: "The smaller merchant would like to know how to keep alive rather than how to have a fancy death...
...Henry's patron and Britain's greatest soldier, General Sir Archibald Wavell, said last year: "The Caucasus, Iran, Iraq and Syria may well prove to be the great battlefield of 1942." He knew, and Hitler knows, that 1942 is the Germans' one year to fight for the bridge. The year is running out, and Hitler's armies are still at the approaches. The Allies' hope is to hold the Germans there. If the Germans reach the bridge this year, the Allies will probably lose all the Middle East...
...patient, good or bad according to which way the wind might blow." In a description like an Italian primitive, Silone fixes a segment of this limbo in a tableau on the village square. Peasants crowd their patient, beaten donkeys past a pink-cheeked effigy of St. Anthony of Egypt (patron saint of donkeys) for the ceremony of his blessing. Above stand two stone saints whose faces, under wear of time and weather, have become like the worn, patient faces of peasants...