Word: patronizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under regulations drawn up in 1570 by the school's patron, Sir Nicholas Bacon, enrollment was limited to 12 underprivileged boys who had "learned their accidence without books and can wright indifferently." The rule excluded Sir Nicholas' famous son, young Francis Bacon. Parents were required to furnish their boys with a bow and three arrows and if their "child shall prove unapt for learning . . . ye shall take him away; and again, if he prove apt, then that ye shall suffer him to remain till he be completely learned...
Robert F. Herrick '90, considered by Crimson rowing enthusiasts the patron saint of our crews, got his first glimpse of the place in June, 1887, when the steamer brought him and his Freshman crewmates up the Thames to the landing. Herrick puts into words a feeling which still pervades the locale...
...Blue-Papered Bedroom. Last week it was again time for gypsydom's traditional pilgrimage to Les-Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, a small fishing village in the wild Rhone delta, to pay homage to their patron Saint Sarah.t Once Romanies from all over the world came; last week, only the French gypsies were there. The others were unable to move across the world's new frontiers and new orders...
...vegetarianism. The book does indeed contain a number of things not to be taken too seriously; for instance, the absence of all lawyers in Utopia, the presence of women priests, the practice of euthanasia (which has made the members of the Euthanasia Society very stupidly claim More as a patron...
Like a man who had been bludgeoned, Gaitán fell, face down, and bloodstains widened on the sidewalk. A lottery vendor, standing in the doorway, dropped his book, grabbed the assassin and shouted: "This is the man." A café patron ran from another door, smashed a chair over the gunman's head...