Word: patronizer
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Before the papers had time to print them the revolt was over. Troops came on the double, set up machine guns on the avenues around the building. Revolver drawn. Sergeant Major Rizo Patron tramped into the palace with a squad of soldiers...
Because St. Patrick is patron saint of the Cathedral and Archdiocese of New York, Bishop-Administrator Stephen J. Donahue gave all Roman Catholics in the Archdiocese permission to eat meat on Friday. March 17, St. Patrick...
Helen Gould was not only interested in railroads, but a notable patron of the Railroad Y. M. C. A. One of the first beneficiaries of her charity was the U. S. Government, to which, in 1898, she gave $100,000 to help defray the expenses of "freeing" Cuba. She was also a pillar of the Red Cross, the D. A. R., the Dutch Reformed Church, and supported the American Tract Society in its efforts to reconvert Soviet Russia to Christianity...
...public places was passed. Mr. Hayes could easily see the merit of the fixture which, when a user rises, snaps its seat back into a recess, scours it with live steam and a scrubbing brush, cools it with a jet of water, snaps it out again for the next patron...
...Manhattan the Screwballs of America, "a new society to protect the right to laugh," met for their first national conference in the 35th Street excavation of the unfinished Sixth Avenue subway, appointed President Roosevelt their patron saint, cabled Adolf Hitler: "If the sound of laughter is ever heard in Berlin, run for the nearest border...