Word: patronizer
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Significantly, the past two centuries have been almost the only period in history when religion was not the principal patron of architecture. The low point in church design coincided roughly with the high point of Victorian morality, but even the recent revival has been almost entirely an eclectic re-creation of Gothic, Byzantine, or Christopher Wren inspirations. Only in the past few years, with Frank Lloyd Wright's Community Church for Kansas City, the Albert Hoffmann-designed St. Peter Claver Mission (Negro Catholic) at Montclair, N. J., the modern Catholic churches of Barry Byrne, a sprinkling of others...
Same day Lord Woolton forced London restaurateurs into a gentlemen's agreement that henceforth, while there will still be no official food rationing in British restaurants (such as there has been in German restaurants for the past 15 months), a British restaurant patron can have a dish of fish, meat, poultry, cheese or eggs, but only one of the five at any meal...
...unprecedented exchange of Latin-American and U. S. art. Two months ago three Western Hemisphere cultural capitals-New Orleans, Guatemala City and San Salvador-started to do some handshaking on their own. The idea for this hands-across-the-Gulf was thought up by a New Orleans art patron, Doris Stone, whose father, big, angular Shipping Tycoon Samuel Zemurray, runs the ships of his United Fruit Co. to & from the ports of many a banana republic...
Meticulous is the word for General Papagos. In private life a patrician to his long fingertips, a foppish lover of fine horses and a patron of racing, his lifelong study has been a huge collection of military books. John Metaxas' name went upon the defense system thrown up along the Bulgarian and Yugoslav borders, which were later extended hastily down the Al banian. But in General Papagos' head rests knowledge of every gully and goat track not only in the Greek mountains but far beyond. Like his soldiers, whom amazed correspondents found toiling with out lanterns at midnight...
Last week devout Brazilian toymakers thanked their patron saint and a U. S. businessman as they delivered 250,000 toys to Lojas Americanas, Brazil's best-known variety chain. It was the biggest order they had ever received from jolly, pink-faced Jim Marshall. Born in the Scranton coal belt, Jim Marshall is no Yankee fireball. Eschewing the impatient, hardheaded methods of most "dollar diplomats," he has for twelve years been just as friendly, almost as easygoing, as his customers. Result: he is the No. 1 storekeeper for Brazil's masses...