Word: patronizingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...view were 1,500 works by 1,000 British artists. As a Coronation gesture the Central Hall was given over to official portraits of British kings from the Academy's first Royal patron George III by Sir Joshua Reynolds to George VI, with the screamingly noticeable exception of Edward VIII. The official portrait of George VI was by Simon Elwes, painted in the gaudy full-dress uniform of the 11th Hussars, called "Cherry Pickers" for their tight crimson breeches...
Chicago's Field Museum last week appointed Clifford Cilley Gregg, 42, Boy Scout patron and onetime executive of Marshall Field & Co., to be director. He is not contemplating any drive for funds. But he "could use some" to mount, for example, a group of storks from Poland...
...organ recital, Professor Davison, assisted by Evangeline Merritt, soprano, will present "Prelude," Vlerne; "Air," Bandel; "Air do Lia," Debussy; "Pastorale," Franck; "Ich wandte mich," and "Wenn ich mit Menschen and mit ngelszungen redete," Brahms; "Patron das macht der Wind," Rach; "Sur un theme Breton," Rpoparts; and "Austrian Hymn," Paine. This will be the last public organ recital of the current academic year...
Varro was patron to the son of one of his freed slaves, Terence, a potter by trade but an actor by inclination, who so strongly resembled the late Nero that he had once successfully impersonated him before the Senate. Nero's easygoing colonial administration had made him and his memory extremely popular in the East; the present government, with less flexible policies, was not. Varro's idea: to start the rumor that Nero had reappeared, then palm off his protege Terence as the revivified Emperor, thus stir up hornets for penny-pinching Cejonius. Varro knew...
Hispanic Museum contains valued Velazquez, Murillos, Zurbarans and a room full of gaudy murals by Joaquin Soralla, besides numerous sculptures by the Museum's patron, Mrs. Anna Hyatt (Archer M.) Huntington...