Word: patronizers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...precarious eminence of perfection. He is permitted no faults, no weaknesses?other than the exalted one of physical ill-health. On the other hand, there have been daring iconoclasts no less superlative in their attacks upon this knight of the spotless scutcheon? notably W. E. Henley, his erstwhile patron and intimate, who registered savage protest against the "Seraph in Chocolate," the "Barley-Sugar Effigy" of legend. With nicely considered moderation, Mr. Steuart aims at the truth behind the haze of contradiction...
Amos Eaton and Stephen Van Rensselaer are two outstanding names in the history of the Institute. The latter was Patroon of Rensselaerwick and a member of Congress. A generous and loyal patron of progress, he | laid the cornerstone for civil engineering in the U. S. by founding what was nominally a school for "the sons and daughters* of farmers and mechanics...
Unfortunately, this illusion is shattered. The patron saints of Boston dramatic culture, apparently, are no longer Ibsen, Galsworthy and Shaw, but George M. Cohen, Irving Berlin, and Florenz Ziegfeld...
...richest man in Central Europe and much beloved by the Viennese whom he assisted financially on sundry and odd occasions. He was also a patron of the arts and for some time supported the famed producer Max Reinhardt, for whom he built a theatre. So fond was he of appearing in the public limelight that he lived with all the pomp and ceremony of royalty, even traveling in the Kaiser Karl's private parlor car, which he bought...
...employes and has 32 resi dences for them. On his estate is a swimming pool, oil heated for cold weather. His hobbies are radio and color photography; and he conducts his radio station and his laboratories on his estate. A millionaire, perhaps, but also an experimenter and a major patron of Science. Movies by radio? Perhaps. At any rate, money won't stand...