Word: patrons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Today, in all of Manhattan's worthy nightclubs and hotel ballrooms, this universal more is maintained. Checks are always presented, on a platter, with the mathematical notations hidden from the naked eye until the patron who is to pay for the fun decides to turn it over, a prerogative that is invariably exercised...
...told that George Ade was one of the Hoosier greats: Riley, Booth Tarkington, the McCutcheons (Cartoonist John T. and Graustark's George Barr), Meredith Nicholson, Lew ("Ben Hur") Wallace. Indianians knew him too as Purdue's No. 1 alumnus, and "Sigma Chi's Modern Patron Saint." He had lived there 30 years as a Hoosier squire, though he wintered in Florida-he said the Midwest had no climate, "just an assortment of unexpected weather...
...Treasury's 918 pages bristle with songs and stories about Paul Bunyan, Old Stormalong, John Henry, Johnny Apple, seed, The Arkansas Traveler, backwoods boasters, killers, patron saints, miracle men - with many an anecdote, joke, tall tale, proverb, animal and ghost story, jingle, ballad, and hunks of widely known, rarely published Americana. If they tell little about U.S. history, they tell much about U.S. character. Editor Botkin wisely keeps his comment to a minimum, lets his collection tell its own story in its own lingo...
Kneeling thousands stared hard at two phials on the high altar in Naples' gothic Cathedral. The phials, people had been taught, contained dried blood of St. Januarius, patron saint of the city who died a martyr in the time of Diocletian (245-313). Last Saturday the hard, dark substance was due to turn to liquid, as it does the first Saturday of every May and every Sept. 19 if the outlook for Naples is good...
...famed U.S. Portraitist John Singer Sargent put the whole Sitwell family on canvas. (The picture is now at Renishaw.) "No picture, I am sure," says Sir Osbert, "could have given the artist more trouble, for my father held strong views concerning the relationship of the patron to the painter." Though Sir George rarely mounted a horse, he insisted on being portrayed in a dark grey riding jacket and boots...