Word: patronizing
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Otto Hermann Kahn lets himself get into print so much as a patron of art and music that readers tend to forget Kahn the great international banker, member of Kuhn, Loeb...
...names Volt, Ampere, Ohm, Faraday, Henry, Gauss, Coulomb, Joule are household gods, and they remind us that we have the same interest and worship at the altar of the same patron saints--Kelven, Helmholtz, Maxwell. Heitz, Sumens, Cramme, Paccenotte. We have the same household gods and the same patron saints. We are all one. So each one of these meetings looks more and more like a family gathering. I wish that the American Congress were here and the American Senate to watch our proceedings and learn that the scientist and the engineer have discovered the great secret--greater than anything...
...Anthony of Padua (1195-1231) was the most celebrated follower of St. Francis d'Assisi (1182-1226), whose seventh centenary will have world-wide celebration this year. St. Anthony is patron saint of Padua and of Portugal, the places respectively of his teachings and death and of his birth. His eloquence was so great that fishes were reported to jump out of the water to hear him. Devout clients appeal to him for the finding of lost articles. Miraculously he could cure erysipelas...
...addressed, and Lawyer Elihu Root of Manhattan wrote a letter similar to Judge Taft's, was that both writers had read a declaration of the officers and directors of the American Judicature Society in which it was revealed that Mr. Ruggles was that society's conceiver, founder and patron...
...When the Italians first annexed us, they did not try to 'nationalize' or 'renationalize' us, as they do now. Then Mussolini came. We call him 'The Patron Saint of Painters,' because he first made us paint our street signs in Italian below the old lettering, which was mostly German, and then he made us paint the German out. He suppressed all our German language newspapers, and many of our old people can read only in that tongue. He invoked an old Austrian law which makes it a crime for any one to teach more than three children without a license...