Word: patronizing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...regular donor to tears with this note: "No one has ever done anything that nice for me before ... I want to do something nice for you. Just let me know what you need, and I'll take care of it." Vani Khajuria, a North Carolina fourth-grader, wrote her patron, "My children's children's children will treasure this book." Eloquent proof that a minute or two on a website can have an effect for generations. --By Amanda Bower
...barman Justin Held insists that the Gloucester Street Cigar Company is “a very male environment [where] testosterone levels get going,” there is a small but growing group of female regulars. Want to know how to break into the inner circle? Pierre Rogers, a patron of five years whose beagle Louie freely roams the shop, jokingly says that becoming a regular depends on “how many hours a week you put in.” But between the affable crowd and the quality product, making this your fifth class might...
...been to weekend wine festivities in Beaune, and the town knows how to throw a party. St. Vincent is the patron saint of the grape harvest, and several thousand people--locals and international guests--are expected to fte him and put in a good word for the 2005 vintage...
...struck blind by meningitis; when he is 13, his country is divided and his family, finding itself in Pakistan, is forced to leave Lahore for India and to start over again. A special program for blind children sends him to America; there, a wealthy woman becomes his patron and sponsors his studies. Mehta's calm, unhurried prose captures the fable-like events of his life. His effortless description of how good and evil things just happen to him and how he manages to cope as best as he can is the principal charm of his memoirs. In All for Love...
During the 2004 renovation the library was forced to move its collection to a much smaller building. But library patron Laura Shapiro ’68 said she did not mind working in the confined space...