Word: connoisseurs
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Manhattan has many a hotspot, many a white-tie joint, but few nightclubs in which a connoisseur of jazz would care to be found. Two years ago a mild-mannered little Trenton, N. J. shoe-store owner named Barney Josephson (no kin to Author Matthew Josephson) opened a subterranean nightclub in downtown Manhattan. He wanted the kind of place where people like himself would not be sneered at by waiters, cigaret and hat-check girls, or bored by a commercial girl show. He called it Café Society, and turned loose some excellent comic artists (among them Peggy Bacon, William...
Died. Charles J. Duveen, 68, antique furniture connoisseur; younger brother of the late Lord Duveen (Duveen Brothers), with whom he was in business before establishing the U. S. firm, Charles of London; in Yonkers...
...when Mrs. Roosevelt said he liked any food "that flies through the kitchen." Sea food was still his favorite dish, terrapin in any form his prime favorite, with a gastronomic nook always reserved for kedgeree, a dish of flaked white fish, rice, hardboiled eggs. He is a cheese connoisseur, but likes ice cream to the point of second helpings. He honestly likes hot dogs. One Scotch highball at teatime is his usual ration, but on a night out he ups that limit: often at banquets the flower vases before his place conceal as many as four Old-Fashioneds, which...
...Chester Allen ("Chet") Everts, who ran away from home at the age of u and made his pile in the oil fields. Wall Streeters, who know what it is to be spanked for selling strawberries without showing the whole basket, trembled for his hide. Last week SEC, not a connoisseur of Americana, spanked him. A sorry ad appeared in the Wall Street Journal: "... I have been notified by the Securities and Exchange Commission that in publicly making that offer I had violated their rules. My offer therefore is hereby publicly withdrawn until and if I can prepare a regular official...
...wholesaler of ideas, Frank is also largely responsible for the semantics fad. But no theory, no dogma, sticks to Jerome Frank very long. A connoisseur of them, his only principle is not to become enslaved to any set of principles, to trust no rules beyond his own democratic instincts and pragmatic sense...