Word: patronizingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...National Voice, who wrote to State liquor control boards wherever they exist. A model State, she discovered, is Iowa which permits no liquor display or advertising of any kind. Only State whose board actually favors linking Santa Caus with liquor is New York. There authorities declared that the patron of Christmas is "not actually a saint, but a character of fiction, not a Biblical character, but merely the symbol of happiness and good cheer...
...Claus was St. Nicholas of Myra, in Lycia, Asia Minor, of whom little is known save that he was a 4th Century bishop. In the 11th Century, Italians of Bari stole his body, built a basilica about it, attributed to the saint many a miracle. St. Nicholas became the patron of Russia, Greece, the Kingdom of Naples, Sicily, Lorraine, Limerick, of children, pawnbrokers, mariners, coopers, brewers. Children came to expect secret gifts from St. Nicholas on the eve of his feast (Dec. 6). This far from notable bishop did indeed become a public character when the gift-giving was transferred...
Private tutoring schools, like private business of any sort, thrive under competition. It is this very competition which insures the casual or regular patron surprisingly high standards, and usually full value for the price demanded. For this reason the denunciation of private tutoring by the University and the substitution of college-run reviews would probably fail to approach the standards set under the present system. Monopoly has a tendency to deteriorate and there is no reason to expect the University to be exempt from this law. Therefore, the ideal would seem to be a set standard for tutoring, approved...
...painted so shrewdly a few years earlier. Artist Matisse felt that the farandole, a sort of strumpets' ring-around-a-rosy popular at both music halls, would be a suitable subject for the grand staircase of a Moscow bourgeois, and that is what he sent to his patron, reduced to simplest terms of nude figures and primitive colors...
...President Roosevelt brought popular, vote-getting Frank Murphy back from his $18,000 job as Philippine High Commissioner to run for the $5,000 Governorship of Michigan. Month ago the redhaired, freckled, dynamic onetime Mayor of Detroit was so worried about his own chances that he got his Presidential patron to tour the State, sing his praises at every station stop. For a time on election night it looked as though Democrat Murphy's fears had been justified, but when the Detroit returns came in it seemed clear that Republican Frank D. Fitzgerald, the incumbent, had lost...