Word: fancier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Paintings of birds to rank with those of Gould and Audubon distinguish this sumptuous volume devoted to Canadian birds, most of them, of course, with dual citizenship in the U.S. Lansdowne is an artist who gratifies the ornithologist with his precision and detail, and he charms the print fancier with his grace and delicacy of tone. Worth the price of 30 bushels of sunflower seeds...
...November. Cadillac, Buick and Pontiac shattered sales records. The tendency of customers to trade up from lower-priced cars cheers most automakers because costlier cars bring fatter profit margins. But what worries the auto companies' big-picture men is that once a customer hankers to trade for something fancier, he may jump to the other firm's line. In October, sales of Ford Motor's middle-priced Mercurys fell 11%, to 33,000, and its Lincolns dropped 18%, to 7,300. For that reason Ford shifted drivers at its Lincoln-Mercury Division: to another...
...Indians in his Wild West show as models. The results may have been at times secondhand-and his dust-raising dramas clearly anticipate the modern Western-but such paintings as The Summit Springs Rescue, glorifying Cody's role in a much disputed battle, so impressed another Wild West fancier, Theodore Roosevelt, that he gave Schreyvogel a presidential permit to visit any Army post or Indian reservation...
...this is enough to turn a discriminating wine fancier to stronger stuff. Henrion does not argue that fine wine should be handled like Préfontaines or that Préfontaines is a fine wine. "In my mind," he says, "this is something else, like Coca-Cola, like beer. It should be marketed that...
...then there is always the potential customer like Miss Alice Wiesendanger, 64, who regularly pilots her Hughes 300 from her home at Saratoga, near San Francisco, to her topaz and tourmaline mine 450 miles south, near San Diego. A food fancier, Miss Wiesendanger yens for the fresh green peas to be found around Half Moon Bay, 30 miles from her home. But she hops over to her favorite vegetable stand-and returns with the peas in less time than it takes to shell them...