Customers who didn't order quickly were expelled with a gruff, "No soup for you!" Patrons ate it up.
You, the patron, entered vertically, though a trap door, already ensconced on a chair.
"I prayed to St. Anthony for you, the patron saint of lost articles.
I think I said something like: "Are you sure, patron?" And, whether it was the wine, the sun, or Montelpulciano, he nodded yes.
No one knew a helicopter crashed till people told you," a patron named Grace MacLean told Sky News.
"It's about our hospitality and making you [the patron] feel really comfortable".
"When you are seen as the patron, you can get away with murder, in a way," Peter Mayer, the publisher of Overlook Press, says.
"If you have a patron who can get you into the queue for jobs when you're young, ahead of other people, you are poised for greatness," says Minxin Pei of Claremont McKenna College.
With the news gather'd up from the wide world all o'er, True as time, ev'ry week, I arriv'd at your door; And now, as old custom ordains, I appear, To present you, my Patrons, a HAPPY NEW-YEAR!
