The words condescending and patronizing present a fine example of this. At first glance these words appear to be defined somewhat circularly: condescending often has the word patronizing in its definition, and patronize is defined, in part, as âto adopt an air of condescension toward.â
1 Section 3 of the 20th Amendment provides that if the President-elect dies before his term begins, the Vice President-elect becomes President on Inauguration Day and serves for the full term to which the President-elect was elected.
Wikimedia Commons. On this day in 1841, William Henry Harrison became the first US president to die in office. Harrisonâs death shocked the nation. He had been inaugurated just 30 days earlier, making him to this day the shortest-serving president in US history.