He is the man who made Lincoln possible, and the acknowledged spiritual patron of Timothy McVeigh.
Dante gleefully skewered his enemies, while Henry Fielding respectfully acknowledged his patron in a preface to "Tom Jones".
The news of the arrests, there among the onion rings and draft beers, did not surprise some patrons, who acknowledged that cocaine is not an unknown quantity on Wall Street.
At the club, there were plenty of condoms for the taking, courtesy of the management, but in conversations with a dozen patrons who acknowledged using crystal, only two men said they were following the rules of engagement in the age of AIDS.
The discussion is easily stirred up in Glasgow's streets and pubs, where the patrons acknowledge that Tyson's visit has everyone "a wee bit off-temper".
Of course, librarians acknowledge that when patrons' passion for the sexy series lacking in literary merit cools in a year or two, the majority of volumes in the "Fifty Shades" trilogy will probably be plucked from the shelves and sold at the Friends of the Library's used-book sales, alongside other poorly circulated, donated and out-of-date materials.
Neither patrons nor staff acknowledged the filmmaker in any exceptional way.
But the money for abandoned mines as well as proposed cuts in farm subsidies illustrate the difficulties the administration will face in Congress, where, as administration officials acknowledged, every program has its patrons.
The offices of both clerics in Najaf acknowledged that Mr. Sadr operated as his patron's spiritual representative in Iraq and that substantial money flowed between them.
She acknowledged the awkwardness of being subject to a patron's whims.
TV presenter Charlie Webster said on Tuesday that she was standing down as a patron, saying the club failed to acknowledged the "extremity" of Evans's crime.
