Word: connoisseuring
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...people. "The thing that pleases me most," he says, "is hunting for bustards with our falcons. It's tremendous to see the falcon fighting the bustard and killing it. Each falcon has its own special owner and refuses to hunt for anyone else." The sheik is also a connoisseur of camel's milk-his only drink-and can tell by the milk's taste what the camel has been eating and where it was in the desert. For the best milk, he explains, "we feed camels on sea mangrove and dried fish. This gives the milk...
...matter how discriminating a connoisseur might be, it is doubtful that he can buy so fast and still maintain the quality that Price genuinely wants. What was meant to be a basement bargain in art could easily become bargain debasement. But still, the public is buying. "In square old Pasadena," says Price, "3,000 people came to the Sears art show, and 180 paintings were sold in one night. They're not buying for investment; they're buying for pleasure." It's a pleasure for Sears...
...Morgan & Co., Ltd. retail chain. The Bay also has a network of 16 wholesale houses, oil and gas rights on more than 15 million acres in central Canada, lucrative fur auction houses in New York, Montreal and London, and a tidy U.S.. Canadian and British business in a connoisseur's Scotch whisky modestly called "Best Procurable.'' The Bay's profits last year were an alltime high of $8,893,000 on record gross revenue of $294,406,000, and this year looks to be even better...
...associated with African adventure: senile rented lions, brffsking British bwanas, bulbous Viennese sheiks, disdressed American beauties, big dumb tribesmen who look suspiciously like studio Indians retouched for the occasion. Most of all he relishes the silly things people say so earnestly in this sort of movie, and assembles a connoisseur's catalogue of clinkers...
...tourist. He had to wait six weeks for a visa, at last entered Albania on a once-a-week Hungarian flight from Budapest to have a look at the country whose regime was described as "more bloodthirsty and retrograde than that of the czars" by no less a connoisseur than Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev...