Word: connoisseurs
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...less a connoisseur than Jack ("Legs") Diamond tagged him as the toughest. And Legs spoke from experience. One night the famous hoodlum declared that he was going to get Broderick. First Grade Detective Broderick, Shield No. 226, heard about the boast and went looking for Legs. "I understand you've been looking for me," growled Johnny as some of Legs's backup men started drifting away. "Ah, hell, Johnny, can't you take a joke?" asked a worried Legs. "Not from you, y'bum," replied Broderick as his left hook mashed Diamond into unconsciousness...
...pushed (the record does not show which) into Bobby's pool. He seemed to know everybody-actresses and artists, poets and politicians-and if Kennedy wanted to meet, say, British Philosopher Sir Isaiah Berlin or Composer Gian Carlo Menotti, Schlesinger could, and did, arrange it. He was the connoisseur on art and literature, movies and martinis, and he served as the Administration's bridge to the intellectual community. He savored the pleasures and perquisites of power with zest...
CONVERSATIONS WITH BERENSON, recalled by Count Umberto Morra, translated by Florence Hammond. The century's most celebrated connoisseur of Italian painting was also a dazzling conversationalist whose aphorisms and tidbits of gossip fortunately were recorded for posterity by Count Morra...
...most spectacular journalist in an era of spectacular journalists. He dressed like a dandy and collected famous friends the way a connoisseur collects old masters. He was an addicted gambler who once won $470,000 in a Palm Beach poker game with...
CONVERSATIONS WITH BERENSON, recalled by Count Umberto Morra, translated by Florence Hammond. The century's most celebrated connoisseur of Italian painting, the late Bernard Berenson was also a dazzling conversationalist whose aphorisms and tidbits of gossip fortunately were recorded for posterity by Count Morra...