Word: connoisseurs
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...connoisseur of the gestures of politicians, President Hoover took sudden and inexplicable fright at this mounting stack of legislation in the House which, if really enacted, would certainly have emptied the Treasury. A White House breakfast was called, with House and Senate Republican leaders and Treasury officials in attendance. Alarm was felt. The President was told, falsely or otherwise, that the pressure behind all these bills was inordinate, that something would have to be done to check the drive on the Treasury...
...exhibition in Gallery XV of the Fogg Art Museum is a rare Rembrandt, "A Youth with a Black Cap and Long Curling Hair", which has been lent for a short period of exhibition by Sir Joseph Duveen, a well-known art connoisseur. The picture comes form the collection of Lord Leconfield, in Petworth, Sessex, and was exhibited in London, at the Royal Academy...
Walter Ernest Tittle of Manhattan may have etched more notables than any artist now living. One of his series comprised all the principals in the Washington Disarmament Conference of 1922. So much has he lived abroad (he is a connoisseur of fine wines) that he was once interviewed as "Walter Tittle, the English etcher," but he was born in Springfield, Ohio...
Married. Prince Takamatsu, 25, naval officer, sportsman, art connoisseur, younger brother of Emperor Hirohito of Japan; and Princess Kikuko Tokugama, 19; in Tokio...
Casanova was an imposing figure over six feet tall: "satiric, satanic, sensuous. An ugly man, swarthy, hawklike, with beady eyes . . . thin elongated nose." A charlatan, cardsharp, liar, forger, adulterer, seducer, jailbird, he was still a "student of humanities . . . connoisseur of the arts and sciences, philosopher, dramatist and poet." A worldly man, with few illusions, Casanova had some profound convictions. "It was one of his staunchest beliefs, one that he retained to his dying day, that lack of sexual expression is followed by a mortal illness." Though his memoirs are never wholly to be believed, the two adventures of which...