Word: collectors
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...gossamer, radiant with the genius of his ardor, his generosity), he became endlessly specific about each trade, and put in motion, Homerically, each deckhand, stevedore, scholar, prostitute, drunkard, slave, "Kanuck, Tuckahoe, Congressman, Cuff," policeman, suicide, trapper, blacksmith, ploughboy, carpenter, contralto, spinning-girl, machinist, squaw, paving-man, flatboatman, fare-collector... on and on, the vast catalog of individualities making...
...roommate many years ago when we were undergraduates at Harvard (Class of 1963), and who became a lifelong friend ("lifelong," alas, is the precise word here), amounted in himself to a one-man civilization - poet, scholar, Ukrainian patriot-in-exile, teacher, translator, editor, literary critic, art collector and chairman of the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Toronto...
...record collector, and I almost immediately went into debt. I just loved Briggs & Briggs," he says...
...ALREADY BE A COLLECTOR...
...wore, even with business suits. He was also a big-game hunter; his house was festooned with trophies, including the skin of a lion he shot in Africa. Friends accounted for Ford's possession of thousands of rounds of military-style ammo as a normal passion for a gun collector...