Word: patronizingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more than the title of Mrs. Logan's book, it is an association and a movement of which she is the founder and mainspring. Born Josephine Hancock, daughter of Chicago's famed Col. John Lane Hancock, elderly Mrs. Logan is not only an active art patron, an avid clubwoman, but a poet. She has written two books of verse. Lights and Shadows and Heights and Depths, and many lyrics including a Negro monolog entitled Longing...
...they shouted. "The statue wins!" Artist Bufano, who chopped off his trigger ringer during the War, frequently sleeps in his clothes, and lives almost exclusively on nuts, is a sculptor of un questioned ability who has had a burning ambition to give San Francisco a heroic statue of her patron saint...
...that he scraped himself during the winter months. But Artist Twok does not use the primitive picture writing of his people. His drawing is western, modeled painstakingly after the art in U. S. magazines lent him by white settlers. Artist Kent is far from being Twok's first patron. Credit chiefly belongs to a Mrs. Oliver Weaver, wife of a public utilities executive in Nome, who has been circulating and selling original Twoks for several years...
...invented by a onetime Fox booking agent named Charles U. Yaeger, who leases it to theatres for from $5 to $50 a week depending on their size. What it amounts to is a clever evasion of state & municipal lottery laws whereby, by registering his name at a theatre, a patron becomes eligible to win a substantial prize if he is present at the theatre on "Bank Night"- when the prize is awarded to the holder of a lucky ticket after a drawing on the theatre stage. Since Bank Nights started in 1931, Inventor Yaeger's enterprise has grown from...
...Society has accumulated 30,000 members whose names include George, has cost its founder $6,000. Fellow-officers of Georgia's George are Vice President George Arliss, Poet Laureate George Ade, Lyricist George M. Cohan, Steward King George II of Greece, Sergeant at Arms George Herman ("Babe") Ruth, Patron Saints George Washington & George Dewey...