Word: connoisseuring
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...picture which has been given the central place in the Zuloaga exhibition is a view of the ancient walled city of Segovia. There is also a painting of the Cathedral at Bengos. These two pictures will be of interest to the connoisseur who knows Zuloaga only from his portraits, gypsies, and veiled senoritas...
There are "low temperature effects on plants," of which Dr. Rodney Beecher Harvey of the University of Minnesota is a connoisseur. He will go to England and Russia and demonstrate how a carload of green fruit can be ripened in transit with 40 cents' worth of ethylene...
...interest of its embryonic development, and art in its full flower are the offerings spread before the connoisseur. Let the individual vagabond choose for himself...
...square inch since the portrait is only 17 in. x 11⅜ in. Her name is Emilia Pia de Montefeltro, and to set his mind at rest as to whether or not she was painted by her fellow townsman Raphael Sanzio, Mr. Epstein has letters from such authorities as Connoisseur Bernhard Berenson of Paris and Dr. George Gronau of Cassell, Germany. Mr. Epstein's agents, F. Kleinberger Inc., of Manhattan, told last week how Dr. Gronau had discovered her, through a friendly priest, in a dusty room in a decaying house in an old precinct of Vienna...
...cinema what a "smart-crack" is to theatre?an action or series of actions (instead of words) conceived and perfected as a distinct unit to be woven into sequence with other "gags," as close together as may be. Funnyman Lloyd, gag connoisseur, exhausted the combined efforts of three expert gagsters in making The Kid Brother...