Word: connoisseurs
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...parade, his Clumber hunting spaniels, his late mother's Labradors, his wife's collection of old Chinese jade, his Empire stamp collection, his great houses of Sandringham, Buckingham, Balmoral and, 500 years older than the others, Windsor. To the King's treasures at Windsor, the Connoisseur gave nearly an entire issue...
...have a painting done of me-all but one of these by request of the artists themselves. If I were able to line up all of these paintings side by side, you would find that each one of them had a different expression. . . . That is the reason that a connoisseur of art can immediately say what great artist did such and such a painting, because he sees the artist's earmarks on the canvas. ... I want you to do something practical for me. A number of men, outstanding individuals in the world . . . are now on display at the Newton...
...pledged to Prohibition has sat in Parliament. Last week Arch-Prohibitor Edwin Scrymgeour, who lost his seat in 1931, sat morosely in his Dundee home. Prohibition as a political cause was just about dead in the realm of His Majesty George V, a great whiskey connoisseur. With Bitter-Ender Scrymgeour absent in a huff, the British Prohibition Party had caucused in Dundee for the last time, dissolved...
...Author. A Hungarian of Transylvania (now Rumania). Aladar Kuncz had small reputation in his own country, was unknown outside. But his friends knew he was an essayist, biographer, a knowledgeable connoisseur of literature. In poor health, he worked away at Black Monastery, his one big book, lived to see it published (May 1931) seven weeks before his death. Though the Versailles Treaty whittled Hungary down to an impoverished fraction of its pre-War self, 20,000 copies of Author Kuncz's last testament have been sold there...
...Somerville, Mass., Sign Painter Jeremiah Christopher Leonard bought a Madonna and Child from a junk shop for $6. For three years the painting hung in the Leonard parlor. Then it was shown to a doctor friend, an art connoisseur, who promptly called in experts. Boston Fogg and Metropolitan Museum people agreed that the picture was 400 to 500 years old. One expert thought it might be the work of Antoni Allegri (1494-1534), known as Correggio. If so, Sign Painter Leonard's painting might be worth...