Word: connoisseuring
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...Nathaniel Spear Jr. is a short, dark, slick-haired Yaleman of 41, a connoisseur of tapestries and an executive head of a group of furniture stores in New York and Pittsburgh. If Mr. Spear wanted to, he could produce one of the most remarkable jingle-jangles of sound ever heard: he could set all his 885 bells to ringing simultaneously. During years of travel Mr. Spear has collected bells from big to tiny, many of them old and odd, most of them ringable-the largest collection in the world. Last week proud Mr. Spear moved them all into his 34th...
...published in the Museum's Bulletin and elsewhere by Miss Agnes Mongan, Keeper of Drawings at the Museum. But it is worth noting that proportion has been made among the many masters and schools. And some outline should be given of what awaits a visitor, whether he is a connoisseur who knows the field, or a layman who would go far to see a drawing made by the hand of Raphael or Durer or Rubens...
Then once more horror, ludicrous and blowsy, leers at their brittle situation, simpers up to them in the person of one Charley (John Barrymore), derelict at large, a bedraggled barfly and connoisseur of crime, who alone of living men knows who really killed the broker. When Ken has routed Charley he prepares to leave his lying wife. She wins him back with one final lie, which may come true...
Those who saw the portrait, however, could tell that its subject was a titled man-of-the-world, a sportsman, a connoisseur of literature, art and tobacco. A dinner jacket suit, from which the painter has removed himself, sits upright in a chair beside a small round table, on which there are a signet ring, a pipe and a leather-bound book. Behind the chair, where the room's blue-green walls meet, stand three polo mallets; near them hangs the painting of an Italianate nude...
Back in Manhattan they formed a committee which enlisted such distinguished names as those of Photographer Arnold Genthe, Director Philip N. Youtz of the Brooklyn Museum, Poet Lincoln Kirstein, Choreographer Leon Leonidoff, Connoisseur Julien Levy, Designer Donald Oenslager, Publisher W. W. Norton, Critic John Martin, Radioman David Sarnoff. Patrons Edward M. M. Warburg and Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt. Third in command was Miss Anne Morgan, J. P. Morgan's impressive sister and Sculptor Hoffman's longtime friend. With this backing,.Dance International steamed ahead to hold a competition among U. S. painters and sculptors, supplementing European and Oriental...