Word: patronizers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...undergraduate shall attend any ball, assembly or party of pleasure during term time, unless authorized by the President at the request of the parent, guardian or patron, under fine of five dollars...
August and sumptuous were the quarters soon occupied by Dr. and Frau Ludwig as house guests of millionaire Manhattan culture patron Otto Kahn. Smart New Yorkers came to dine...
...tabloid press. What digs the vein deeper than it is ever dug by dramatic U. S. journalism or journalistic U. S. drama, is a thrust of reason which Europeans do not fear to exert in their most fantastic moods. Franzi, the roustabout hero of Peripherie, murders a wealthy patron of his harlot sweetheart. He successfully disposes of the corpse but is hounded by his conscience into confessions, which none will believe. Theatre-goers to whom spoken German conveys no meaning may miss the specific but not the general philosophizing. A thumb, a hip, an eyebrow, drilled by Reinhardt, can beggar...
Other notable ingredients in the gala week of Washington opera supplied social and musical excitement. Offspring of three presidents (Cleveland, Roosevelt, Wilson) sat behind stiff shirts or strings of pearls; French Ambassador Paul Claudel was advertised as a patron. On the stage appeared Mary Lewis and Jeanne Gordon of the Metropolitan; famed French tenor Maurice Capitaine, sent specially for the occasion by the French Ministry of Fine Arts, had arrived the day before Mignon. Plaudits for him perhaps surpassed those tendered Novelist-singer Christmas...
...seat in the Illinois assembly. He has never felt that his Republican sentiments required him to admire Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson, who labeled Mr. Judah a "silk sock" when the latter managed an anti-Thompson primary campaign. Senator Charles Samuel Deneen of Illinois has been the Judah patron. He introduced the bemedaled* lawyer-soldier to Washington last year and President Coolidge was impressed. Colonel Judah, onetime Assistant Chief of Staff of the Rainbow Division, is a director of the Chicago Title and Trust Co. and an alumnus-trustee of Brown University...