patron
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That Friday night, only one patron came through, and so Keket closed early.
From Slate ● Oct. 26, 2026
Dimes bought more than candy: In the years after labor fights at his Standard Oil Company left workers dead, Rockefeller’s small gifts burnished a new reputation as a grandfatherly patron.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026
Alan Mandell, an award-winning actor, arts patron and arts administrator, was best known for co-founding the San Quentin Drama Workshop and interpreting the plays of Samuel Beckett.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026
Accompanied by her sidekick and netherworld patron King Grimsquawk – a crowned raven-baby holding a scepter – Workman conjures up one of the funniest small-screen comedies that isn’t officially on TV.
From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2026
Ludovico Sforza, the patron of the lavish Milanese Renaissance, would die, half-mad, in a French dungeon.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
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At the Los Angeles Zoo, patrons can bring a picture of their late companion animals to display on a community altar.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 2026
The author of “Shakespeare at Thirty’” on spies, massacres, pirates, poets and the patrons who made literary careers possible.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026
But overall, the prevailing narrative was that seeing “The Devils,” in this format and with a full crowd of fervent patrons, was a once-in-a-lifetime experience.
From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2026
Fiery arguments have broken out among patrons at Rock's Family Diner in the Aroostook frontier town of Fort Kent.
From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026
But Vincent does not come from such a family or have any connections with the kind of people who could be patrons.
From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman
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