Word: patronizingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Recently he revived a symphony by Prussian King Frederick the Great, famed in his time as a flautist, patron, composer...
...have the age-old strictures of producers been disregarded that the picture is actually allowed to close with the hero thwarted in his attempt to win the woman he loves. The rest of the plot has features equally unorthodox which should make it attractive to the most blase patron of the cinema...
...smaller towns the scheme of life is not complete without the local unit banker?men like Gallic Harris of Franklin, Ky. Benign-faced, with a smile for everyone, an optimist in all emergencies, family and business, adviser to every patron and friend, trustee of every church or hospital loan, executor when men died ?dedicating their souls to God and their estates to the banker! He befriended a poor foreign peddler with a pack on his back. . . . This peddler became a great and successful merchant and when he died, his will gratefully gave his large estate to this banker. When...
...hell-raiser whose hair is never brushed; like his latest book, he is "aggressive, however sinful and full of pride." Two good poems appear-one an old-style Lindsay chantey, "The Virginians Are Coming Again," and "Twenty Years Ago," a rambling epistle to some anonymous and scornfully rejected patron. As usual, Poet Lindsay wanU these poems to be chanted, hopes that none of them will be set to music. In his recent sojourn in Spokane Poet Lindsay evolved what he calls Poem Games, in which children dance and act out poems simultaneously chanted by a reciter. "I recommend it," says...
...that even a novel-browser may read both tale and fable aright. The artist comes to a strange land, gets into difficulties from which he is rescued by a mysterious masked figure. End of Part I. The artist comes to a city, paints pictures, is taken up by a patron, lionized, supplied with a mistress. End of Part II. He is happy with her until he discovers she is mercenary. This tragic realization merely amuses her. He rushes out, sees a nightmare of cheap love everywhere, goes crazy, ends up in jail. He escapes, is pursued, chased over a cliff...