Word: patronizers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Seven months ago Benito Mussolini, patron of fecundity, decreed that Italian newly weds would be charged only 30% of the regular Italian State Railway fare for a round-trip to Rome from any part of the kingdom. Last week Il Duce let the world know that his honeymoon rates have drawn 14.000 newly weds to Rome- 2,000 couples per month. Most of them call at the Vatican where each bride is given a rosary, each groom a medal...
...then there was the foyer, and with it, all relative to the sixty-five cents, was that appealing influence of Oxford on a South End accent gently intoning that discouraged something about a "Bettah seelekshun." Those fifteen pairs of trodden toes reacted in the usual incoherent manner. The patron saint of sleeping dogs keeps watch over the soles of metropolitan theatre-goers...
...found nothing harmful in the drawing, and a Catholic editor of the Junior Red Cross News pointed out that a Spanish parish priest might very well add "such homely touches" as giving a barley wafer (not a consecrated wheat wafer) to an animal. St. Anthony the Abbot is the patron of domestic animals as well as of hospitallers, basket-makers, butchers, gravediggers. On his feast, Jan. 17, the Italian and Spanish faithful may bring their animals to be blessed with a special prayer and be sprinkled with holy water...
...shortened season a $400,000 deficit had directors wondering last week whether to disband or attempt drastic reorganization. Most credible rumor: a twelve weeks' season in New York might be combined with visits to other cities which would be called upon for backing. Louis Eckstein, Ravinia's patron and newest of the Metropolitan's directors, would help arrange a Chicago engagement...
...Christopher, patron of travelers, is generally portrayed as a tall, strapping fellow. In New York last week arrived a traveling priest who, in height at least, seemed a match for his venerated patron. He was Rev. Franciszek Skalski, 6 ft. 7 in., of Luck, Poland. Educated at the Grand Seminary of Luck (St. Stanislaus) and the Universities of Warsaw and Paris, Father Skalski is now professor of Modern Theology, Church History and Sociology at the Grand Seminary. He is in the U. S. to preach in Polish at Polish churches in the East. When he arrived, tall Father Skalski...