Word: patronizing
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...coast of Portugal. Astonished airmen marvelled at his "dumb luck." Pilot Hausner's attractive wife, Martha, and the pastor of the Polish-Catholic Church in Newark, N. J., which they attended were joyful but not astonished. They remarked that Pilot Hausner had carried a medal of St. Christopher, patron saint of travelers...
Parliamentary experts told the Chancellor that if he dared to face the Reichstag his Cabinet would be overwhelmingly defeated. Therefore Protege von Papen asked Patron von Hindenburg to dissolve the Reichstag, which he obligingly did. Within 60 days a new Reichstag must be elected?but in less than ten days Germany must send a delegation to the Lausanne Conference, which all the world hopes will untangle Reparations, War Debts and German private debts...
...ordinary mortal, which meant meagrely. Puzzled, he asked the San José sacristan's advice, was told that the natives had no use for his sermons, which praised San Antonio, San Francisco, the Virgin. Jesus, all of whom meant nothing to them. Why not praise their patron, San José? At his next visit Padre Martinez propped an image of San José in the pulpit, stood on the floor himself. While the sacristan circulated the money-box among the congregation, the Padre exhorted them to pray to San José. That saint did not waste time preaching...
Night World (Universal) is a neat, legible carbon-copy of several other night club pictures. The night club's patrons, entertainers, chorus girls, doorman, policeman, gangsters, gamblers all get into the picture because they are all in the night club. Director Hobart Henley can thus change the subject whenever one set of characters begins to get dull, as in Vicki Baum's kaleidoscopic Grand Hotel. Mae Clarke is a square-shooting chorus girl who talks like a Girl Scout. She pities a young patron (Lew Ayres) who is the scion of a famed murder case and drinks...
...subject for this great plaster painting, Artist Orozco chose the legend of Quetzalcoatl, the Toltec feathered snake-god, patron of arts. Officials of Dartmouth found this suitable. The college was founded by Missionary Eleazar Wheelock to convert the Indians...