Word: collector
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...midgets." He liked big, eye-catching things. He bought thousands of acres of land in Minnesota, Oklahoma, Wisconsin and Florida. He built a bank, a hotel and two huge, Italianate palaces in & around Sarasota, speculated in railroads and oil, was the first extensive collector of baroque paintings in America (because they were bigger than the paintings done in any other style). He lived high, wide & handsome, dressed like a raffish fashion plate, ate grossly, drank fine wines by the magnum and Jeroboam, kept pretty women about him, slept most of the day, and worked and played all through the night...
...American Lithofold Co., and turned over enough stones in the RFC and Bureau of Internal Revenue to prove that both were acrawl with graft and influence peddling. As a direct result, National Democratic Party Boss Bill Boyle had to quit his job, and St. Louis' Internal Revenue Collector...
...expert on the London water works; he invented a slide rule, a pocket chessboard, and worked on a computing machine. He wrote for the Britannica and other encyclopedias on an imposing range of subjects - Age, Apiaries, Arsenic, Asphyxia, Electricity, Electrodynamics, Galvanism, Phrenology, Solid Geometry, and Syncope. He became a collector of chess problems, dabbled in mnemonics, astronomy, entomology, geography, and geology. In his spare time he also took up botany, and it was botany that led him to compile the Thesaurus...
...display was the work of Collector Rudolf F. Haffenreffer, an old M.I.T. man ('95) and board chairman of Rhode Island's Narragansett Brewing Company. A longtime Americana fan, Brewer Haffenreffer started collecting wooden Indians in the '303 as a promotion stunt for his company. Then it became a passionate hobby...
Grand Right and Left, by Louis Kronenberger. A deftly witty farce about the richest man in the world and his compulsions as a collector (TIME...