Word: connoisseuring
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...Island and into the fields below Arlington National Cemetery on the Virginia shore. Everywhere barekneed youngsters in khaki perambulated through the streets with cameras and autograph books. Everywhere rose a babel of youthful voices, in childish versions of the accents of Maine and California, of Wisconsin and Texas. No connoisseur of mob scenes had ever seen such a sight; never before had the Boy Scouts of America held a National Jamboree...
...sale was Indian Warfare, by Frederic Remington, incorrectly subtitled Custer's Last Stand. Though not the traditional Custer's Last Fight, painted especially in 1888 for Budweiser Beer advertisements by Cassidy Adams, this canvas brought top price for painting. It went for $7,700 to a Manhattan connoisseur whose agents, the Macbeth Gallery, also laid out $10,200 for a pair of similar Western pictures by Charles Marion Russell: Hunter's Luck, a hunter stymied by a cliff, and The Holdup, a stagecoach robbery...
Among the many good works of Secretary Albert Gallatin was the founding of New York University. In 1927 Connoisseur Albert Eugene Gallatin announced that he was presenting to his great-grandfather's college a collection to be known as the Museum of Living Art. Few museums are more autocratically administered. All the pictures are chosen and paid for by Donor Gallatin. They are hung in the main study halls of N. Y. U.'s Washington Square branch, because of his belief that pictures should be lived with, not visited on pilgrimage...
...both hands deeply into his pockets, he might be taken for a "typical" Harvard man. He was even indifferent about Harvard itself until the tentacles of the Tercentenary entwined him, and even now refuses to display any enthusiasm for the University in a way that would please every true connoisseur of the Harvard attitude...
...disinterested, the Colonei calmly replied that this fellow is a newcomer, but maintained stoutly that the former Chief had made himself heard on the subject. What Mr. Apted wanted stressed above all, however, was the beautiful $60 "no-parking" sign, one that would warm the cockles of any sign-connoisseur's heart, that hangs above the entrance of this triangle. It seemed very strange to him that such a very beautiful sign was read so little