Word: patronizing
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Bruce C. Hopper spoke to the residents of Adams House last night at their Long Table dinner. William Lyon "Billy" Phelps, Yale's famed patron of Browning and Tennyson, was unable to be present on account of a severe cold...
...Harry Tammen woke up to the fact that his old friend and patron had fallen on hard times, gave Lyulph Ogilvy a job. The Post (now fairly sedate) was a bold, rowdy, unscrupulous journal when Ogilvy joined its staff in 1909. When Tammen asked what his first name was, Ogilvy answered, "Lyulph." Said Tammen: "That's a hell of a name. We'll call you Lord Ogilvy...
That young Chrysler is earnest about becoming a patron of U. S. horse racing was evident when he returned to Saratoga this year. Accompanied by Trainer McDaniel, he spent his early mornings watching workouts, his early evenings learning the ABCs of conformation at the ringside of the Sales Paddock. Before he was called back to Long Island by his father's fatal illness last fortnight, young Chrysler had added 13 more yearlings to his stable. The $53,000 he paid for them was second only to the amount spent by Chocolate Heiress Ethel Mars (Milky Way Farm), leading yearling...
...college man himself, Brown is an athletic patron saint of the University of California at Los Angeles. He donates fancy water wagons to the U. C. L. A. football team, awards a loving cup to the university's most valuable football player every year, frequently presides over athletic banquets. Two years ago he was taken in as a regular member of Zeta Psi, to which his sons Joe Leroy and Don Evan belong, went through the traditional initiation. He is the only nonstudent ever to get a letter from U. C. L. A., an honor that has impressed...
...slim, elegant little Chinese newsman, Samuel Chang, sat down to tiffin in a German tea shop on Bubbling Well Road. Up stepped a stranger, whipped out two guns, and pumped four shots into Samuel Chang's back. Then the assassin rushed into the street, followed by another patron. Turning, he put two bullets in his pursuer's stomach, and fled. Newsman Chang died instantly, his champion (a Pole named Vladislav Krasson) an hour later. A graduate of Columbia University's School of Journalism, 40-year-old Samuel Chang was a director of the Shanghai Evening Post & Mercury...