Word: patronizing
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...right. Incidentally, I have a conscience-and neighbors talk, too." But Freddy was on his grandfather's delivery truck only a week and three days when Teacher Williams tracked him down in great excitement. Dr. Serge Koussevitzky was conducting at the Philadelphia Academy of Music that night; Music Patron Dr. John Noble and Concert Manager William Huff, who had heard Freddy, wanted him to sing for the conductor...
Fine ignored his old patron, Senator Duff. He did not call on him, telephone him, or write. Grundy's policies became Fine's policies. Soon Fine was in a pitched legislative battle with loyal Duff Republicans over his proposal to saddle Pennsylvania with its first state income tax-a measure loudly endorsed by Grundy's man Owlett...
...himself. Every hamlet has a statue, or at least a bust, of El Benefactor, every public building an inscription proclaiming his beneficence. "Only Trujillo cures you," says the inscription on a hospital. Hundreds of towns, streets, buildings have been renamed after Trujillo, his father, his mother, and his patron saint, Rafael. In an unequalled burst of impudence, he renamed the oldest city in the New World (founded by Bartholomeo Columbus, brother of Christopher, in 1496): Ciudad Santo Domingo became Ciudad Trujillo...
...most famous of all summer theatres in America is the Cape Playhouse at Dennis. Known in the past for skilled performances by its patron Gertrude Lawrence, the playhouse has grown in popularity, and this season's selections completely justify its superior reputation...
With Ste. Cunegonde as their patron, the Grey Nuns founded an asylum in Montreal's St. Henri tenement quarter in 1895. The grim, grey stone building was a haven for orphans and old people. The aged, living out their days on $25-a-month government pension checks, were lodged in bare upstairs rooms in the western side of the building; the children lived in the east wing...