Word: patronizing
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...Slacks, No Cuties. Such hoydenish antics have long irked Phil Wrigley, a pioneer softball patron who can remember when the game was known as kittenball among Chicago's early devotees. Other things that Patron Wrigley objected to were the unladylike costumes affected by the players and the undignified names their sponsors tagged on them - such as Slapsie. Maxie's Curvaceous Cuties, the Num Num Pretzel Girls, Barney Ross's Adorables and the Dr. Pepper Girls of Miami Beach...
Bodie, a 40-odd-year-old sea dog with 23 years of service to his credit. Its patron: Captain H. A. McClure...
...Thomas' remarks about music have a lofty, Tory tone. He takes a poor view of the musical tastes of the masses, declares that great music can exist only when furthered by men of wealth and discrimination. Remembering his own lavish, costly activities as a patron, Sir Thomas is irritated by people who declare that fine music should be put on a paying basis. "Music," says he, "is a parasitical luxury, supported by the few. It is something that must be inflicted on the public...
...officials had long sought to regain for their country some of its vanished power and glory. From the ceiling-high windows of their brownstone government building in Pest they surveyed Buda spread out in a quiet arc. They looked down the sluggish Danube, past the austere statue of their patron, Saint Stephen, and felt themselves ordained and inevitable monarchs of all they saw and all they could take...
Executive Secretary John J. Kearney of the Bartenders and Waiters Union testified that the night club patron blamed indirectly for the holocaust was a sailor who unscrewed a light bulb to darkon a corner so he could "mug" his girl friend...