Word: connoisseur
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...quite all right, but something other than a law of nature. And his peroration is dubious. "This leaves us the Revolutionary ideal of the emancipation of mankind from the Capitalist grasp as the only inspiration for a really vital art in the present and future." I protest, as a connoisseur of prophecy. Mr. Philbrick can see into the future no farther than John Doe and I, and anyone who cared to predict the exact opposite would be just as right as Mr. Philbrick. It is shrewd to confine dialectic to the here...
...Author, says his introducer, "is that rare article, a newspaper executive who gets around a little and has first-hand knowledge of his town. He is a connoisseur of people, especially fantastic ones, and seeks them out as the late J. P. Morgan sought rare old snuff-boxes." He has journalistic premonitions which stand him in good stead. "He is practically a whippoorwill in his ability to forecast death, especially the death of an eminent citizen." Generally considered Manhattan's most colorful as well as ablest city editor. Stanley Walker fulfills the first requisite of a Manhattanite by having...
Famed was he for large-scale philanthropies: free medical service to indigent thousands, a hospital ship plying Japan's Inland Sea, a Better Farming Society. He was an ardent archeologist, a connoisseur of native art. For his services to journalism and public welfare, the Emperor made him a peer, gave him the Second Order of Merit...
...exhibition of rare French and Italian drawings of the eighteenth century from the collection of Richard Owen, the Parisian expert and connoisseur, is new being shown at the Fogg Museum and will remain there until Wednesday...
Died. Arnold Seligmann, 61, famed Paris art connoisseur, founder-president of Arnold Seligmann & Son (antiques & old masters) with Paris & Manhattan offices; of heart disease; in Paris. He advised Art Collectors William Randolph Hearst, the late John Pierpont Morgan, the late Thomas Fortune Ryan, the Rothschild family, the late Paul Dutasta...