Word: patronizing
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...they envision for their daughters: well-mannered, well-groomed, well-heeled. By day Zhang sells real estate, and his Beijing apartment is filled with pale blond Ikea furniture. He doesn't need the money, really, but he's longing for a new Zegna suit, and his latest patron - the 48-year-old wife of a property magnate - has promised him a spring shopping spree. "We're good for each other," he insists. "I give her confidence about her sexuality and she helps me finance things I could never...
According to William C. Barnes, a Cambridge police officer assigned to work with the license commission, finding a violation requires investigators to catch an underage patron in the act of consuming liquor. In practice, this standard of proof is very high...
...Grille has become much more challenging for the average patron," one first-year regular writes in an e-mail message. "While previously the 'pass-back' was an almost foolproof method for getting in a friend who did not have a positive ID, such activity is no longer even an option. It seems as though the bouncers have become much more scrupulous...
...consists of a demand for a reevaluation of Van Vechten's place within American literary history. Van Vechten, whose literary reputation came under fire during his own time (it has since suffered an even worse fate--oblivion), was a white writer, literary gate-keeper and a "dedicated and serious patron of black art and letters." He spent much of his time frequenting Harlem's famous cabarets and hosting legendary parties where struggling black artists could establish contacts with New York's influential whites. Van Vechten is credited with directly assisting in the publication of many works by black authors, including...
...deed is done, and the reputation of the Grille forever soiled. Some, no doubt, will cease to drink there, unwilling to be patron to a place so tainted by scandal. But we call upon all good Harvard students to continue to support the Grille in this, its trying hour of need. The owner and managers of the Grille are decent and humble folk, and we are certain that this black mark--like those of five earlier sting operations and $12,000 previously paid in alcohol fines--will forevermore weigh heavy on their brows...