Word: patrons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. George Noble, Count Plunkett, 96, Irish literary and art patron, and fiery fighter for a free Eire; in Dublin. The bush-bearded, pouch-eyed papal count, first Sinn Fein candidate to be elected to the Irish Parliament (in 1917), served the new republic as Minister of Foreign Affairs (1919-21) and Fine Arts...
Died. Edward George Villiers Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby, 82, portly, jovial landowner (69,000 acres), sports patron, first of his line since 1787 to win his family's namesake horse race (with Sansovino in 1924; twice Secretary of State for War (1916-18, 1922-24); in Prescot, Lancashire, England...
...deeply religious answer to its own questions, American religious groups have unanimously blasted it. The picture places a group of Anglican nuns in a remote part of the Himalayas, where Western morality and religion simply do not exist. Their convent has once been a local emperor's harem, their patron is the conscience-stricken emperor, who pays his subjects to go the convent, and the nuns are a group of mortals, frightened by the strange place but determined to fulfill their duties and to care for the people. The lascivious atmosphere works steadily to erode their layer of self-imposed...
...Machine. In Providence, Bus Terminal Agent Harold Waterman told police that a determined patron dropped a nickel in a vending machine, got nothing, shook it, still got nothing, picked it up and carried...
...crowd cheered the Monsignor's final words-the message of Cardinal Schuster himself, who sat a few feet away tightly clasping his cross: "It is the duty of every right-thinking man to support the Government in its difficult struggle. . . . Let the Milanese be worthy followers of their patron St. Ambrose. May St. Ambrose protect Milan...