Word: connoisseurs
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...father, Sir George Sitwell, Bart., makes the other characters (even such brilliant ones as Virginia Woolf, Aldous Huxley and T. S. Eliot) look slightly dwarfish. Something of father Sitwell's impressiveness can be judged from the fact that when 24-year-old Evelyn Waugh, already a hardened connoisseur of the old regime, first laid eyes on him, Waugh simply became incapable of speech -"struck mute, in a kind of ecstasy of observation...
Soviet Marshal Klimenti (the "Liberator of Budapest") Voroshilov is something of a connoisseur of art, as generals go. In the summer of 1946, when Hungary was looking for somebody to commemorate its "liberation" with a giant monument, Voroshilov found the man on the spot. On a stroll through a Budapest park, he had seen and admired a sculpture by Sigismund de Strobl. Voroshilov dropped in at De Strobl's studio on newly named Voroshilov Avenue, found the sculptor quite willing to do the job. But De Strobl would have nothing to do with the proposed designs, which called...
...Connoisseur. In Nice, France, a judge couldn't quite stick Dr. Caillet's will, declared it invalid, since it set up an annual prize for the local citizen who had the straightest nose, smallest wrists, and largest hands-provided his hair was red and his eyebrows black...
...Little Now. Despite all the bustle and the big talk, anyone who bought a television set last week would have to be a sport fan, a connoisseur of antique films, or a man with a lot of patience. Most stations telecast only four hours a day. With some exceptions, their programs are at the level of movies in the heyday of the Keystone Cops, or of radio in the era when fans stayed up all night to hear Pittsburgh...
...Loos and E. E. Cummings between the paintings of Matisse, Segonzac, Pascin, Laurencin, and seasoned the whole with Covarrubias caricatures and Steichen photographs. At 71, after observing that "it would make a frightful mess if I died and left all this stuff for other people to take care of," Connoisseur Crowninshield sold his art collection...