Word: patronizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unduly alarmed. Next day was Corpus Christi. He marched in the religious procession (first in Berlin since the War) to the Cathedral of St. Hedwig. Strengthened by this, he buttonholed President von Hindenburg for four hours and 45 minutes three days later, tried to persuade his old patron not to admit the Fascists to a share in the Government until after the Lausanne conference in June. Meanwhile, the Chancellor planned a new legislative program to break up big Junkers' estates to provide homes for the jobless and to increase taxes by another emergency decree...
Night World (Universal) is a neat, legible carbon-copy of several other night club pictures. The night club's patrons, entertainers, chorus girls, doorman, policeman, gangsters, gamblers all get into the picture because they are all in the night club. Director Hobart Henley can thus change the subject whenever one set of characters begins to get dull, as in Vicki Baum's kaleidoscopic Grand Hotel. Mae Clarke is a square-shooting chorus girl who talks like a Girl Scout. She pities a young patron (Lew Ayres) who is the scion of a famed murder case and drinks...
...subject for this great plaster painting, Artist Orozco chose the legend of Quetzalcoatl, the Toltec feathered snake-god, patron of arts. Officials of Dartmouth found this suitable. The college was founded by Missionary Eleazar Wheelock to convert the Indians...
...Detroit, delighted to see a sign "Big Premiere-Price 5?" outside a long-closed cinema theatre, 95 patrons bought tickets from a courteous boy in the box office, gave them to another boy, were ushered to seats by a third. The show failed to begin. "Hey, when does the show start," shouted an impatient patron. One of the boys stepped from behind the curtain. "There has been a slight delay due to a mechanical defect," he announced. "Please be patient." So patient were the patrons that not for an hour did they discover that the boys and the receipts...
...Students' Leaguers thought the memory of those ancient brawls was dim enough to try it again. As were the old Fakirs at their inception, the new society is limited to League students, but they have one more connection with the old society. Sam Shaw is still their patron and benefactor...