Word: patronizing
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MICROPHONE STAND -- Got into trouble (again) for tossing one while performing at a Greenwich Village nightclub, hitting a patron in the head; pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct...
John H. Limpert, Jr. ’55 was not much of a patron of the arts in his student days, opting instead to spend his time at the Harvard Lampoon, where he nurtured his talents as a humorist and writer...
...this place closes, the real Harvard Square is completely buried,” David Brennan, a patron since the 1970s, told The Crimson at the time. “The free-floating intellectuals may have no place to float free...
When a severed finger makes its way into a fast-food order, the first phrase that comes to mind generally isn't victim corporation. But that's how an assistant district attorney described Wendy's last week after a patron claimed last month that a manicured fingertip had been served with her chili in San Jose, Calif. The ghastly publicity, which has cost the restaurant chain an estimated $1 million a day, eased a bit last week when the supposed finger finder was arrested for trying to shake down the fast-food giant. Anna Ayala, 39, a Nevada resident with...
...pizza and beer. After checking his coat, he is horrified to be presented with a cloakroom tab for more than the garment is worth. While he tries haltingly to talk his way out of this mess, he is rescued by Ichimonji, an older and evidently much wealthier man. This patron takes the young foreigner under his protection and guides him through an evening of serious drinking at a succession of night spots, culminating at a hole in the wall where a pretty barmaid agrees to dance naked for just the two of them. The student hears the term mizu-shobai...