Word: connoisseuring
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...Tugwell having his white doeskin shoes cleaned and whitened. His necktie, shirt and socks always conform to a careful color scheme, and in passing a mirror he is apt, perhaps unconsciously, to give himself a glance. At 42 he is a handsome figure of a man. Besides being a connoisseur of dress, he is also an amateur of wines. Otherwise he leads the life of a professor, dwells in a small house in Glover Park with his wife and two daughters (Tanis, 17, and Marcia, n), is amiable with friends in spite of his intellectual snobbishness, is shy, cynical...
...Next morning it woke to find a panel of one of the world's most famed religious paintings wrenched away-the most sensational art robbery since the theft of the Mona Lisa from the Louvre in 1911. Nobody today remembers Jodocus Vijdts, Lord of Pamele, but every art connoisseur knows the polyptich which it is said Hubert van Eyck painted for him in the 15th Century and Jan van Eyck, the painter's brother, finished. The brilliant, realistic twelve-paneled Adoration of the Lamb remained Ghent's and Belgium's pride, lost only partial glory...
...worth of song, the Academy stipulated that the winning hymn must last from twelve to 15 minutes and be scored for four to eight mixed voices and a full orchestra. This remarkable paean will be sung in June at the Grand Festival of Bordeaux before no less a connoisseur than President Albert Lebrun...
...through the War and post-War years with colors never below half-mast. In 1932 they considered themselves well and truly fixed as German citizens. Gus- tav, senior partner in the family furniture business, was a 50-year-old bachelor who enjoyed most moments of his ordered life. A connoisseur of women, art and literature, he frequented his club and the theatre and left the running of the business mostly to his brother Martin. Edgar was a world-famed surgeon; Ludwig had been killed in the War. Of the Oppermann women, one was married to a well-to-do German...
...there was no telling when the mad fit would seize him, and he would scream till his throat was inflamed. At the asylum at Saint-Remy they let him paint, off & on, eventually released him in care of a doctor, nearer Paris and Theo. But the doctor, an art connoisseur, enraged van Gogh by his cavalier treatment of artists whom his patient revered. One day he terrified the doctor by appearing with a revolver in his hand. But van Gogh only laughed awkwardly, went to his room and shot himself in the stomach. As he lay dying he said...