Word: patronizer
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...redeeming features, but the degree to which certain publications have gone out of their way to "educate" the public in this matter is out of all proportion to the cooperation asked for by civic leaders. Indeed, the hue and cry has been such that even the most casual patron of local newsstands may well be under the impression that the country is undergoing a major epidemic, and that he himself is in direct danger of contamination...
Master. As free and furious as they come is John Marin, the acknowledged master of living U. S. water-colorists and an artist almost certainly great. Last week his old friend and patron, Alfred Stieglitz, opened an exhibition of Marin paintings done during the last two years. To discerning critics they were simpler and more exciting than any previous Marin exhibition...
Equally pious was an act reported last week from India. The Safety First Association sponsored the unveiling of a statue of St. Christopher, patron of travelers, in one of Bombay's biggest bus stations...
...Patron saints of physicians & surgeons are SS. Cosmas & Damian; of nurses, St. A.catha; of throat ailments, St. Blaise...
...newly appointed Counselor. This will depend largely on the Counselor. He will have to use a maximum of care not to frighten sensitive Yardlings by appearing to be another banana skin on the royal road to history. He must be a father-confessor. He must be a patron saint. He must instruct his brood in what to read without letting them guess that it is assigned, and must conduct a serious class in an atmosphere of gay camaraderie. This may possibly be difficult. There will be those who will prefer to glue on their vencer of culture with a brush...