Word: patronizing
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...books, it was said at Naples, were "destined to revolutionize the whole history of the Roman pe riod." Professor Delis also stated that Professor di Martino-Fusco had discovered two other codices of immense importance-rumored to be a First Century life of Christ, a life of St." Januarius, Patron of Naples...
...employes and has 32 resi dences for them. On his estate is a swimming pool, oil heated for cold weather. His hobbies are radio and color photography; and he conducts his radio station and his laboratories on his estate. A millionaire, perhaps, but also an experimenter and a major patron of Science. Movies by radio? Perhaps. At any rate, money won't stand...
Boston, the Hub, has made another revolution. Serge Koussevitzky, famed Russian conductor, a prophet of the new, a patron of the unknown, will direct the Boston Symphony this Winter. Last season it was Pierre Monteux, volcanic, sensational, whose introduction of Stravinsky's Sacre du Printemps was a dramatic event. Now comes a man whom they heralded in Moscow with bombs and cheers and acclaimed in Paris with appreciation even more explosive. What will he do? Great words thunder in the index...
Died. Mrs. Samuel Untermyer, 65, wife of the famed lawyer; in Yonkers, N. Y., after a long illness, following a stroke of paralysis incurred last Autumn. Known for her charities, she was also a patron of Art, 'Literature, Music. Her house in Yonkers ("Greystone") was the scene of many notable gatherings at which poets, artists and visiting celebrities were fed, entertained...
Before dispersing, the "Caseys" voted to become book and magazine censors, "to organize and finance a movement for fighting the dissemination of immoral and harmful literature." Further, they voted $38,000 to restore the statue of their patron, Christopher, which was destroyed some years gone by earthquakes where it stood on his second landing spot at Aguadilla, Porto Rico...