Word: connoisseuring
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...contest is now open for the submission of your girl friends' picture . . . (a snapshot, prefarably). A whole page of base "Beaveresses" will feature our Yearbook. The winners will be chosen by that well-known connoisseur of femin- ine pulchritude, Professor R. S. Merriam...
...gesticulating figures, dreamlike landscapes, surrealistic enigmas, glimpses of children's games. Some of the canvases looked as if they had been painted by the children in them; some were reminiscent of the French primitive, Le Douanier Henri Emilien Rousseau, or of French Modernist Marie Laurencin. Wrote Art Connoisseur Frank Crowninshield in one of the catalogue's two forewords (the other was written by Correspondent John Gunther) : "A curious and evocative order of magic; a gift of divination . . . the feeling of rhythm, or flow...
...photographs were taken by Sir Richard Wallace in Paris during the 1871 struggle between the Paris Commune and the army sent against the city by the anti-republican National Assembly government at Versailles at the conclusion of the Franco-Prussian war, Sir Richard was an art connoisseur who made a study of the then new art of photography and his pictures of the ruins of Paris were unique. The photographs were in Sir Richard's town house in Paris until acquired by Mr. Spaulding...
Here are some those powerfully beautiful professional American beauties you've heard so much about. From the looks of things Old Connoisseur John Robert Powers has turned over his whole organization, on loan of course, to the Hollywood pulchritude exploiters, and the results are beautiful but dumb...
When that danger was past, Gort was sent to Gibraltar, where attack again appeared to be impending. It was from Gibraltar that he was moved to beleaguered Malta. A nonsmoker, an austere man, Gort is nevertheless a sherry connoisseur. Regretfully he left behind him at Gib a decorated sherry cask presented by his staff...