Word: nibbler
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...wealthy individual-a Getty, a Norton Simon, a Mellon-finds in great art what eluded Alexander of Macedon-a last world to conquer. It is a lust to which overachievers have been notoriously susceptible, from Catherine the Great, who built Leningrad's incomparable Hermitage ("I am not a nibbler but a glutton") to U.S. Industrialist Joseph Hirshhorn, the great benefactor of the Smithsonian ("I have a madman's rage for art"). To be sure, such stupendous collectors and donors still make record purchases. But it is not the proud possessors who crowd the salesrooms and find bonanzas...
...intrusions bring to mind the phantom foot nibbler of 1967 and 1968 who had the habit of caressing unsuspecting females feet in Yale's Sterling Library. He was never caught...
Diamond Flush. In Berwick, Pa., Mrs. Hensyl Garrison absently dropped her diamond ring into one of the 300 bags of potato chips she was filling, shipped it off to an unknown nibbler. In Weatherly, Pa., Mrs. Emory J. Miller irritably attacked a clogged drain with a suction plunger, brought up the $175 ring that she misplaced 20 years...
...time off, Tracy plays tennis with his son Johnny, clacks with his boyhood crony, Pat O'Brien, talks with Victor Fleming about horses and about the war career of their close friend Clark Gable. A nonstop gum chewer and candy nibbler who describes himself as "a box of chocolates broadened out into a character actor," Tracy has recently lost weight (8 Ib.) because war has drastically curtailed his formal supply of sweets...
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