Word: connoisseuring
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...will win its author or co-authors fame. "The Corpse in the Constable's Garden" is mild to the point of blandness and while "The Westminster Mystery" is more adapted to the taste of crime blood-hounds and includes bits of staccato action, it will not overly enthrall the connoisseur...
...great deal of quite natural and understandable emphasis upon the substance of volumes. But this emphasis has prevented any real appreciation of books as books. The pleasure gained from rare bindings and fine printing is only secondary, but it can well be a genuine source of satisfaction to the connoisseur. Both the modern trend toward mass production and the advance of education have made possible and profitable the publishing of books in great numbers. This large scale production has tended to reduce the beauty of volumes and to cheapen the workmanship. Students are apt to forget that binding, in years...
Clothes may not make the man, but, according to Peggy Joyce, man's clothes help to make the woman. Accepted connoisseur in the modern fine art of collecting husbands, "Miss" Joyce reveals in the Boston Herald that by your tie you shall be classified as Gentleman, Rounder, or Non-entity. Applicants for the process of re-Joycing must remember the sad case of the man who followed her from Paris to the Lido by way of Monte Carlo. As she naively remarks: "Moon-bright Venetian nights nearly made me think I loved him." Then one morning the poor fellow dared...
...Madrid is Irwin Boyle Laughlin collector and connoisseur of paintings. But one cannot expect a steelman (Jones & Laughlin, Pittsburgh) to patronize all the arts...
...manner of Grandfather Millet. To Artist Cazeau's canvases Grandson Millet then affixed his grandfather's initials. In Paris he discovered one Rudolfo Perez y Montalbo playing a guitar on the streets. Impressed by the man's name and aspect, Grandson Millet pressed him into_ service as a connoisseur. The guitarist's job was to attest solemnly, wordily that the works of Cazeau were, in truth, the works of "that luminous master of the Barbizon school?Jean Francois Millet...