Word: book-collector
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...friend, Marcus Maudsley, uses him as a plaything--one with macabre attractions, to be sure. Leo, the orphaned son of a shabby-genteel pacifist and book-collector, is notorious at his school only because of his black magic. There is no real affection present in the relationship; a thick oil of politeness surrounds the entire Maudsley family. The Maudsleys test each other aesthetically rather than touch and exchange emotions or ideas...
...book-collector is debarred from none of the joys. And though he may have less leisure to enjoy them, he has the added pleasure of being able to retain his prize, once it is captured, whereas the unfortunate bookseller must surrender it to the first purchaser...
Married. Harriet Green Huntington, $10,000,000 heiress, granddaughter of the late Henry Edwards Huntington, California tycoon & book-collector; and one Albert Doerr Jr., onetime (while at Stanford University) ice-truck-driver, mining engineer; in Pasadena, Calif...
This year's course is one of a long line offered to the people of Cambridge through the generosity of Thomas Dowse, leather-dresser, and book-collector of Cambridgeport, who decades ago bequeathed to the City of Cambridge a fund the income of which was to be spent annually in providing one or more series of talks of highest character on literary or scientific subjects. Among the notable Dowse lecturers in the past have been Edward Everett in 1811, Ralph Waldo Emerson in 1821, Charles Summer in 1830, Wendell Phillips in 1831, and Oliver Wendell Holmes...
Estate of Henry E. Huntington: Nine million five hundred thousand dollars five-year notes; to pay balance of Federal estate and California inheritance tax on $42,000,000 estate of California's most famed book-collector; the library, now a public possession, is not among assets securing loan; Harris Forbes & Co., E. H. Rollins & Sons; counsel: Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, O'Melveny, Tuller & Myers (Los Angeles...