Word: philanthropist
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...themes of drug addiction and Eastern religion, played out by a varied cast of supporting characters (and suspects): the cheerful clergyman Crisparkle; Mr. Grewgious, one of the very few likable lawyers in the Dickens canon; the admirable young naval officer, Lieutenant Tartar; the sulky clerk Bazzard; and the bullying philanthropist, Mr. Honeythunder. All are the products of a unique and fevered imagination; none can possibly be reproduced. Or can they...
Anthony G. Athos, an expert in managerial and organizational behavior whom Time magazine called "one of ten great college teachers" in a 1966 article, was named Strauss Professor of Business Administration. Jesse Insider Strauss' sons established the chair in 1973 in memory of their father, a retailer and philanthropist...
That view sat well with Ryoichi Sasakawa, 81, famous in Japan as a philanthropist and longtime prewar supporter of conservative causes, an accused war criminal who spent three years in jail after World War II, and a multimillionaire whose fortune was made by, among other things, staging hydroplane races on which eager Japanese bettors could wager. Sasakawa disclosed that he had sponsored the salvage ship Teno and its team of divers at a cost of $13.6 million. The ingots and whatever else was found were his, said Sasakawa, who estimated that treasure worth no less than $36 billion was aboard...
...centuries ago, a plumpish, well-dressed man went about the slums of Gloucester, England, inquiring "if there were any decent, well-disposed women in the neighborhood." The man was Robert Raikes, a rich philanthropist and newspaper publisher. He was looking for women who were "well disposed" to teach reading, and he found four of them. For a fee of a shilling, he later recalled, they agreed to take "as many children as I should send them upon the Sundays...