Word: connoisseurs
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...London last week, K. S. Wood, connoisseur of windmills, revealed that there are over 2,000 in England, only 1,700 in the Netherlands. Lincolnshire leads all other English counties with 170 windmills. Norfolk is runner up with...
...Greatly daring, the English Folk Cookery Association invited French Ambassador Aimé de Fleuriau to their "May Dinner" at Simpson's-in-the-Strand (a studiously English restaurant directed by Connoisseur George Reeves-Smith who also directs numerous de luxe London hotels including Claridge's and the Savoy...
...weather defeat writ all over his pan and not a tear could wash out a feature of it. Result-cut in TIME. To gaze at this conceited cookie-cutter countenance takes the courage and strength of a Daniel to bear up under the shock. Just what does this reputed connoisseur of female pulchritude know about real beauty in woman? What he might consider beautiful no one else would, as witness what the majority of men marry! I challenge this brute to specifically define a beautiful woman. What are the ingredients-the formula? . . . Did it ever occur to this deep-thinking...
When "they" arrive the Masseys have some trouble breaking the social ice. But Enid and Clarissa soon attract the younger set. and the life of the colony follows them. Enid and Eddie Bullfinch, two of the most comic portraits from Connoisseur Tarkington's album, make life almost intolerable but all the more enjoyable throughout the summer. After several wrong guesses as to whether the Bullfinches, Allstovers or Timberlakes are the people to know, the Masseys find they are all about the same, all worth knowing, if you like to chuckle. The colony gets some chuckles out of the Masseys...
...architect and most of the subjects contain architecture. It is rare, however, that an architect can give professional versimilitude to his subject matter and yet, at the same time, treat it so fundamentally from the point of view of painting. The exhibition is thus a delight to the connoisseur and enthusiast in water colour and to the architect who is interested in technique and the beautiful composition of architectural forms...