Word: patrons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...financial impact of the Superdome is felt far beyond its walls. The average Super Bowl patron will, by conservative estimate, spend $100 a day. The dome last year directly generated more than $2 million in tax revenues, plus an estimated $3 million from a 4% city hotel/motel tax that was levied to help pay for the behemoth. Thus while the building ran $5.5 million in the red. it brought in more than lagniappe to the local economy...
...patron saints...
...patron saint of pussycats...
...American aristocrat-public servant, who worked for six Presidents as diplomat, adviser and troubleshooter; of a heart attack; in Washington, D.C. The tall, courtly son of a Maryland Senator and Pulitzer-prizewinning author, Bruce had a Jeffersonian career-farmer, lawyer, author, state legislator, businessman, Army colonel, sportsman, art patron, raconteur and wine connoisseur. After running the European operations of the Office of Strategic Services (forerunner of the CIA) during World War II, Bruce helped rebuild the Continent as an administrator of the Marshall Plan and later as Ambassador to France under Harry Truman. A strong advocate of a united Europe...
...others are students or drivelers . . ." Pipe, Assyrian beard, clogs and beer gut: all his life he projected an image of invincible roughness and solidity. In fact, his greatest paintings were rarely the work of a simple realist. For example, The Meeting, 1854, showing Courbet's encounter with his patron Alfred Bruyas and a manservant on the road near Montpellier, was based on a woodcut of two bourgeois meeting the Wandering Jew; but its poses (oddly ritualized for a "realist" work) may carry an esoteric reference to Masonry. Nevertheless, Courbet seemed a monster of high animal spirits, rooting like...