Word: connoisseur
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...fashionable psychological approach. His young men have the assertiveness of youth itself, their vanity is perfect. His masterful or stupid middle-aged women are a special excellence, and so are his pompous fathers. Undershaft is convincing as a human being. A very vain man, Shaw was a connoisseur of vanities and his collection is not wounding or disheartening-as it is, say, in smaller writers like Maugham-largely because Shaw is warmed by the fire of a natural affinity. Only a clumsiness of plot-Shaw was not a natural plot-maker, but a reckless piler on of the grotesque...
...frock coat, Whitman took a stroll every day down Broadway to the Battery, in search of editorial inspiration. In his lapel was a fresh boutonniere, on his arm a dark and polished cane, in his roving eye a twinkle. He sniffed the clean air like a connoisseur sampling fine brandy, poked his head into a pistol gallery, a bookstore, a flophouse and a church, watched small boys shooting marbles in the park, and smiled appreciatively at each passing pretty girl...
...connoisseur of percentages, the sentiments of the voters were almost as impressive. Voting for the Stalin "bloc" of deputies (there were no other candidates) to the Supreme Soviet's Council of the Union were 110,788,377 patriots (99.73%), while 300,146 others (0.27%) were listed as having voted against the Stalin bloc by drawing a line through the names. Crowed Pravda: "What stirring and decisive figures they are! . . . The Soviet people unanimously approve the wise Stalin's foreign policy . . . Only under Socialism are the people the masters of their fate...
Leach had brought 301 examples of his own hand craftsmanship with him to Washington. There were urns, vases, teacups, mugs and plates whose clean lines and subdued colors echoed the golden age of Chinese pottery. But none was slavishly Chinese and some were "modern." A first-class craftsman and connoisseur of oriental pottery, Leach is also an occidental, an artist, and his own man. The combination made for strength as well as refinement. His work argued even more forcefully for handcraft than his words...
...Chicago hotelman (the two Ambassadors, the Sherman) and nightclub impresario (the Pump Room, the College Inn); of a heart ailment; in Chicago. Hotelman Byfield once defined the perfect hotelman as the "master of opposites. He needs to be a greeter and a bouncer, pious but ribald . . . noted as a connoisseur and competent as a plumber...