Word: connoisseuring
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...frock coat, Whitman took a stroll every day down Broadway to the Battery, in search of editorial inspiration. In his lapel was a fresh boutonniere, on his arm a dark and polished cane, in his roving eye a twinkle. He sniffed the clean air like a connoisseur sampling fine brandy, poked his head into a pistol gallery, a bookstore, a flophouse and a church, watched small boys shooting marbles in the park, and smiled appreciatively at each passing pretty girl...
...connoisseur of percentages, the sentiments of the voters were almost as impressive. Voting for the Stalin "bloc" of deputies (there were no other candidates) to the Supreme Soviet's Council of the Union were 110,788,377 patriots (99.73%), while 300,146 others (0.27%) were listed as having voted against the Stalin bloc by drawing a line through the names. Crowed Pravda: "What stirring and decisive figures they are! . . . The Soviet people unanimously approve the wise Stalin's foreign policy . . . Only under Socialism are the people the masters of their fate...
Leach had brought 301 examples of his own hand craftsmanship with him to Washington. There were urns, vases, teacups, mugs and plates whose clean lines and subdued colors echoed the golden age of Chinese pottery. But none was slavishly Chinese and some were "modern." A first-class craftsman and connoisseur of oriental pottery, Leach is also an occidental, an artist, and his own man. The combination made for strength as well as refinement. His work argued even more forcefully for handcraft than his words...
...Chicago hotelman (the two Ambassadors, the Sherman) and nightclub impresario (the Pump Room, the College Inn); of a heart ailment; in Chicago. Hotelman Byfield once defined the perfect hotelman as the "master of opposites. He needs to be a greeter and a bouncer, pious but ribald . . . noted as a connoisseur and competent as a plumber...
...Connoisseur Gaits. In the ring, the ringmaster called for a walk and Wing slowed down, though still strutting. Teater gave him a thank-you tap on the head. At the call for the "slow gait," Teater gave a twist on the snaffle rein and Wing moved into a gliding, four-beat amble...