Broadway angel, e.g

Usage examples of backer.

The patriarch, Thomas More Anglesey, Duke of Gunfleet, had been a contemporary, and a mortal rival, of John Comstock, who was the Earl of Epsom and the first great noble backer of the Royal Society.

Stefan Schoenburg and the other Cabbagehead backers are just a derivative screenplay away.

I thought you might like to know that I have just completed an exhaustive search of Stefan Schoenburg and the rest of the Cabbagehead backers.

Ringbolt than we would have from Elysium, and our financial backers are delighted.

Although the Balfour Declaration gave Zionism the lukewarm support of the backers of the White Guardist pogromists, it did nothing to curb the pogroms.

Which puts Meissner and some of the other backers in a mood to cut their losses.

Aspen Wildcat -- whose main backers include The First National City Bank of New York and the First Boston Capital Corp.

And now the meeting of Secret Army backers with Communists at a quiet luncheon table in a respectable restaurant began to show its threat.

Geraldine and Joe, their backers, the guarantors who had invested in their company.

Hitler backer and Edsel Ford continued the family tradition in 1942 by encouraging French Ford to profit from arming the German Wehrmacht, Subsequently, these Ford-produced vehicles were used against American soldiers as they landed in France in 1944.

But as for the Fascists and their backers, how could they come even as near to the truth as that?

Once each year, commencing upon the first Sunday of Lent and extending over a period of three days, there hath been from time immemorial a truce declared between the Fronters and the Backers, during which is held the Great Tourney, one year in the plain before the city of Nimmr and the next year in the plain before the City of the Sepulcher, as they call it.

Bohun that of king and these titles have been handed down from father to son during the centuries, while the followers of Gobred still wear the cross upon their breasts and are called therefrom, the Fronters, and the followers of Bohun wear theirs upon their backs and are called Backers.

Gobred or Bohun, dependent of course upon whether the honors of the tourney had fallen to the Fronters or the Backers, and in due course were given in honorable marriage to knights of the victorious party.

Korites had gathered his two potential stars, a comic character actor, and a potential backer, Sikes, to meet the great director.