Word: connoisseuring
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...early years at Washington were happy, a Golden Age. There was a threshold, at 1603 H Street, which was "sooner or later crossed by everybody who possessed real quality"-the threshold of Henry Adams, sardonic New Englander, connoisseur of life and all its arts, a man who said of himself: ". . . as far as he had a function, it was as stable-companion to statesmen, whether they liked it or not." Over the Adams threshold daily came John Hay, "the roving diplomat," Secretary of State to Presidents McKinley and Roosevelt, Adams' great friend. Here came Clarence King, a professional geologist...
...Everett, who has the eye of a connoisseur, was not dismayed. He had seen the statue of which he was sent to get a reproduction. It was wrapped in a cumbrous toga. He could not help comparing it to a modern dressing-gown...
...Stanford White, connoisseur of beauty in art and women, already had won her. Her hair as black as smoke in the night, her eyes limpid and violet, her under lip full and tremulous, her bosom shallow as the chest of a growing boy, her experience that of a woman much older, she held out her arms to the wastrel Pittsburgher and he rushed into them...
After an extremely weak first act (the fault of the play, not the players), "The Tailor Made Man" increases in interest, and by eleven o'clock the audience is quite willing to admit that Mr. Cohan has certainly earned his reputation as a producer and connoisseur of humorous drama...
Suppose you try your first package of Reedsdale just to get this 100 per cent insurance feature, and then see if the connoisseur-blend of fine tobaccos does not prove an equally happy revelation...