Word: patronizing
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...chil dren, grandchildren, their cousins, aunts, and in-laws assembled for buffet supper at the Manhattan home of Herbert Lee Pratt, one of Charles's five sons, board chairman of Standard Oil Co. of New York and Socony-Vacuum Corp. Among the guests: the George Dupont Pratts (art patron), the Frederic Bayley Pratts (president of famed Pratt Institute in Brooklyn), the Charles Pratts; George's Son Explorer Sherman; Charles's Son Banker Harold Irving: the late John's widow ex-Congresswoman Ruth. There were a huge Christmas tree and wreaths from the family's greenhouse...
...lighting fires. Scholar Tischendorf recognized the vellum leaves as fragments of an ancient Greek biblical text. He asked for more. The St. Catherine monks showed him some, refused to part with them. Scholar Tischendorf took home what he had, published it as the Codex Friderico-Augustanus for his patron, King Frederick Augustus of Saxony. He returned twice to Sinai, the second time under the patronage of Tsar Alexander II Oi Russia. He was shown more manuscript, including the Epistle of Barnabas which was not previously known to exist in Greek. This he spent a whole night frantically copying, exclaiming...
...greatest sympathy for modernists. The New York Committee, which in the nature of things will have the greatest number of indigent artists to provide for, was viewed with greatest alarm. Smart Mrs. Juliana Force is the widow of a Manhattan dentist and longtime friend of Art Patron Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney. As one of the first members of the Whitney Studio Club and Director of the Whitney Museum she probably knows as many U. S. painters as anyone in the country. During the past two years she has done much practical charity by tactfully buying a great many more pictures than...
Died. Aida E. M. Birrel Iglehart. 52, Long Island horsewoman, polo sponsor, art patron, Chile-born wife of Importer D. Stewart Iglehart (president of W. R. Grace & Co. and Grace Steamship Co.), mother of Poloists Stewart Iglehart (8-goal handicap) and Philip Iglehart; of pneumonia; in Westbury...
Divorced. William Curtis Bok, 36, Philadelphia publishing scion, lawyer, penologist, music patron, eldest son of the late Edward William Bok, grandson of the late Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis; by Margaret Adams Bok, Philadelphia socialite; in Reno. Grounds: cruelty...