Word: patronizing
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French babies are not brought by a stork; they are delivered by a rabbit in a cabbage patch. But in Alsace, where German folklore survives, the stork is still the solemn patron of the childbed. France, whose declining birth rate is a national problem, viewed with alarm a last week report on stork nests in Alsace: In 1927, there were 270; in 1928, only 150 were occupied; this year, only 53 in all Alsace...
...believe that Lu likes the idea largely because she will be able to become the benefactress of some unknown man, anybody. From her chrysalis the big-hearted glowworm emerges as a good fairy. She picks up a telephone directory, looks up the name of a lawyer, tells her patron that he is her husband and that she will expect the patron to do the handsome thing...
Familiar to most big cities is the fly-by-night exhibit of gruesome or sleazy photographs which opens in a vacant store, boldly advertised as an "appeal to justice" or a "lesson in morality." Usually the pictures are unpublished newsphotos of current crime. The patron may be lured in by "free admission," then coaxed to pay 25^ to see an extra-ripe display behind a curtain; or he may be held up at the exit to contribute to a "fund for the impoverished victims." Into such a "crime prevention" exhibit on Los Angeles' South Main Street two months...
...nearly $1,000,000 toward the support of the Society of the Friends of Music. Fortnight ago people perfunctorily approved a memorial concert to Mrs. Lanier in which Conductor Artur Bodanzky presented the Actus Tragicus, Bach's mourning cantata. But last week musical people were startled. Unless another patron is found, the Friends will be able to perform no more of the great, rare music for which they are famed...
Elsewhere in these columns is a provoking editorial note praising the generosity of a patron of art and suggesting that it would not be amiss if the Chicago community were to aid Mr. Louis Eckstein in his material support of the Ravinia Park summer opera. Bostonians have not to go abroad to find a citizen equally praiseworthy for his beneficence in a similar work. They have only to refer to Major Higginson...