Word: patrons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dame Rumor raced swiftly through the Yard last night spreading far and wide a false story that Mother Advocate's simply divine party, scheduled for this afternoon, was to be called off because R. Bowden Broadwater '42, Pegasus and patron of the ballet, had swallowed his chewing...
Significantly, the past two centuries have been almost the only period in history when religion was not the principal patron of architecture. The low point in church design coincided roughly with the high point of Victorian morality, but even the recent revival has been almost entirely an eclectic re-creation of Gothic, Byzantine, or Christopher Wren inspirations. Only in the past few years, with Frank Lloyd Wright's Community Church for Kansas City, the Albert Hoffmann-designed St. Peter Claver Mission (Negro Catholic) at Montclair, N. J., the modern Catholic churches of Barry Byrne, a sprinkling of others...
Captain Cook's expedition took Omai to England from the Sandwich Islands as a treat for Cook's patron, the gaming Earl of Sandwich. This noble savage clicked at once. Lord Sandwich was ravished when Omai, who had never seen a horse, exclaimed: "What a big hog!" He was captivated when, during his first coach journey, Omai observed: "We go one way; houses, fences, trees all go other way. Ver' fine-sit, talk, maybe sleep, and at same time go!" Lady Carew was enchanted when she asked Omai how he liked tea. "Ver' well," he said...
Same day Lord Woolton forced London restaurateurs into a gentlemen's agreement that henceforth, while there will still be no official food rationing in British restaurants (such as there has been in German restaurants for the past 15 months), a British restaurant patron can have a dish of fish, meat, poultry, cheese or eggs, but only one of the five at any meal...
...unprecedented exchange of Latin-American and U. S. art. Two months ago three Western Hemisphere cultural capitals-New Orleans, Guatemala City and San Salvador-started to do some handshaking on their own. The idea for this hands-across-the-Gulf was thought up by a New Orleans art patron, Doris Stone, whose father, big, angular Shipping Tycoon Samuel Zemurray, runs the ships of his United Fruit Co. to & from the ports of many a banana republic...