Word: patronizing
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Before World War II's outbreak, the Duke of Kent was known in Britain as a driver of fast cars, an eager nightclub patron (he plays quite good jazz piano), the husband of beauteous, peacock-proud Princess Marina of Greece. But since the war he has settled down, worked hard at his job. Side trip: he will go to Hyde Park on Aug. 23 to visit President Roosevelt. Denied: that he will see the Windsors, who, it was reported, would soon visit their ranch at High River, 35 miles south of Calgary, Alberta...
...labor. Paris, too, exerted an essentially masculine influence, stony, harsh, forcing Rilke to a contemplation of that reality he so dreaded. Whenever he left Paris, he became the pet lamb of one great lady or another, his work sagged into mediocre translations and brilliant, sanctimonious letters. Not to a patron, but to his publisher Anton Kippenberg, Rilke owed the two most productive years of his life: the years in Paris writing the New Poems (fourth-dimensional still lifes) and that semi-autobiographical symphony of fear, the Malte Laurids Brigge (Journal of My Other Self...
...Joseph Spellman of New York announced a Mass for the British in St. Patrick's Cathedral June 4 (which happens to have been the birthday of King George III). This is the first Mass for Britain in the history of the great church dedicated to Ireland's patron saint. It indicates a meaningful shift in Irish-American Catholic sentiment...
Behind Castillo is a junta of shrewd politicians: onetime President Justo, Senate President Robustiano Patron Costas, Senator Antonio Santamarina, Boss Alberto Barcelo of Buenos Aires Province, Fascist-minded Manuel A. Fresco, onetime Governor of Buenos Aires. About the only thing that could upset their plans would be the return of President Ortiz, and a Conservative-controlled Senate Committee has ruled that the President is too nearly blind to read the bills he would sign. Disorganized by Ortiz' illness and frightened for Argentina's future, the Radicals are now split into two camps, one led by onetime President Marcelo...
...patron saint of I Am is St. Germaine, who made his first appearance on earth in the year 70,000 B.C., and later as the boy Samuel in the Bible. During the Middle Ages he took mortal form in the body of the Comte de St. Germaine, whose name he liked so much that he kept it for himself. He also appeared in the bodies of Francis Bacon and William Shakespeare. This is how I Am explains the Shakespeare-Bacon controversy-they were both the same person...