Word: connoisseuring
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...Havana man in the street, Communist Lázaro Peña is the Cuban Confederation of Labor (C.T.C.) and the Cuban Confederation of Labor is Peña. Once a tobacco worker and now a connoisseur of fine cigars, he dominates meetings of his 400,000-member Confederation with his booming, deliberate voice, his attacks on U.S. imperialismo, his praise of Russia. His chief monument is the block-long Palacio de Los Trabajadores (Labor Palace), for which President Ramón Grau San Martin allotted $772,000 to butter up the Communists after they had given him a political...
From a loudspeaker outside the Brass Rail Theater Bar, a smoky, crowded joint on Chicago's brassy Randolph Street, came hard, driving music. One old connoisseur who heard it stopped in his tracks and said, "My God. it's Bix." But the sign in the window said Jimmy MacPartland. It was Jimmy playing the golden cornet that Jazz Immortal Bix Beiderbecke had given him years...
...wife Ise he likes to ride horseback by the shore of Walden Pond, a stone's throw from his home. "I'm so acquainted with the Massachusetts landscape," he laughs, "I know the foxes and grouse personally." An untiring host for visiting Europeans and student disciples, he is a connoisseur of French foods and the delicate Continental wines of which there are "only imitations in this country but for one I have discovered in the Finger Lakes of New York State." Those who meet him and withdraw at an apparent forbidding austerity soon learn that Gropius possesses a keen sense...
...chapter out of an authorized biography of the patriarch of U.S. chain journalism. To set the stage, it went back to W.R.'s dear, dead Harvard days: "If anything, the young Hearst had more of a potential than his fellows. Back of him were an unequaled upbringing, a connoisseur's taste. . . . But, by his own admission, the tall, blond and very elegant heir to mining millions lacked a purpose...
...Canada, was feeling better. A Canadian cinema producer had the rights to Mencken's A Neglected Anniversary (deadpan history of the bathtub, written some 30 years ago), and Mencken had a gratifying contract: in exchange for rights to the old hoax, the old hoaxer (who is a connoisseur of brews) was guaranteed two cases of Canadian ale a month for the rest of his life. Further, he did not have to return "the bottles and containers or other cartons in which such ale is shipped...