Word: connoisseuring
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This galaxy of talent submitted meekly to Henley's dictatorial editing. Editor Henley ruthlessly rewrote all his contributors-poets, essayists, novelists, the connoisseur of Continental cooking-leaving the well-known "trail of Henley" all over the magazine. "I was comforted," said young Yeats, after Henley had laid a heavy pencil on his lyrics, "by my belief that [he] also rewrote Kipling." It was "exceedingly characteristic" of Henley, said George Bernard Shaw, to be deeply puzzled by Shaw's fury when a Shavian article in praise of Mozart was "edited" by Henley into a savage attack on Wagner...
...their techniques by moaning & groaning the blues and blaspheming the classics with arrangements too torrid for laymen's ears. One suitably muggy morning last week, Brick's boys cut their first commercial discs, "a blues, a mood and two jumpers"-which the Hot Record Society, purveyors of connoisseur's jazz, will market to hot platter "bugs...
Lean, leisurely Arnaldo Cortesi was schooled in Italy and England, became something of a scholar and a connoisseur of wines. He learned to like the cafe life of Rome, and the way Mussolini's trains ran on time. Leftwingers loudly accused the Times of employing a Fascist apologist; and even other Timesmen rebutted him on occasion...
...Scholar in Crime. As Major Maclay, Forger Thiel was a connoisseur of fine wines and food. He read scholarly works on engineering, medicine and art. He bought $150 suits, $25 shirts, $10 neckties. He often wintered in Miami...
Booth Tarkington, 75-year-old, two-time Pulitzer Prizewinning novelist and connoisseur of art, who summers at Kennebunkport, Me., attacked the Kennebunkport post office mural, an old WPA project depicting bulgy bathers on a beach. Author Tarkington regarded the work as "painful to Kennebunkport's old timers. Why, Kennebunkport doesn't even have a bathing beach...