Word: fancier
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...fancier of phobias, batho-to claustro-to thanato-, life aboard a submarine seems designed to drive a man out of his mind. Sealed inside a steel prison, the submariner is bored stiff for weeks at a time. His air comes out of a machine; his sun is a light bulb. And in a few swift seconds of combat he may meet a fate that the rest of the world knows only as a statistic...
Building further their brothers-under-the-greenbacks camaraderie, ardent Art Fancier Averell Harriman, Democratic Governor of New York, offered to Republican Governor-elect Nelson Rockefeller, an art lover even more ardent, a token of no hard feelings: the loan of eight etchings and two oils by James Abbott McNeill Whistler and one oil by John Singer Sargent for Rockefeller's use in the executive mansion...
...very first night that she appeared Downstairs this month, one of Tammy's fancier fans followed her cautiously into her dank basement dressing room and asked modestly, "Would you mind reading a script of mine?" The wraith maintained her poise in the face of Noel Coward, managed to say: "I'd like to." A couple of days later, after a ten-minute reading, the cleft-chinned Lorelei of the West Fifties was signed for the lead in Coward's new comedy, Look After Lulu, due to open in late February...
...Four of Founder Hartford's grandchildren and a great-granddaughter each own 10% of the voting stock. They are George Huntington Hartford II, theatrical producer and art fancier, of Manhattan; Mrs. John F. Bryce of Manhattan; Mrs. Charles Robertson of Huntington, L.I.; Mrs. Allan J. Mclntosh of Bedford Village, N.Y.; and Mrs. Henry G. Carpenter of Shelter Island, N.Y. Five other descendants each own 2% of the outstanding voting stock, and another 40% is in the John A. Hartford Foundation set up by brothers John and George Hartford (TIME...
...Weather Bureau believes that its tracer balloons proved successful on the first try. will become an important tool for studying hurricanes. Later models will be fancier, with instruments to measure pressure, temperature and humidity in the gale-ringed eyes of the storms...