Word: raconteurism
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...student, calmly said, "Okay, Scream." This shook off the intruder, but according to the raconteur, it shows that the blackmail she might have earned on parietal rules frauds was limitless...
...Arthur Hanbury Godfrey and the former Kathryn Morton of Ossining, N.Y. Father Godfrey, a freelance writer and expert on horseflesh, claimed to be the son of Sir John Godfrey, onetime Viceroy of India and scion of a wealthy Liverpool brewing family. Arthur recalls that his father was "a raconteur and a gentleman full of old-school aristocratic thinking. Therefore, in business, he stunk." Since none of the ancestral glories have proved verifiable, Arthur now suspects that his father embroidered them to 'compensate for his financial failure...
...Grauer is a tired, pleasant, chainsmoking little (5 ft. 6 in.) man who looks something like George Jessel with hair. He is a bachelor, a bow-tie fancier, a tea-drinker and a raconteur...
...want to talk to anybody alive or dead," declared talkative Bernard Shaw. It was half of his answer to Gallup pollsters asking Britons which of their famed countrymen (dead or alive) they most wanted to talk to. "If I craved for entertaining conversation by a first-class raconteur," Shaw went on, "I would choose Oscar Wilde."* In the poll, Shaw himself ranked 27th. Most-sought-after...
...more friends than big Max Gardner. Ever since he moved from North Carolina to Washington in 1933, the capital's society matrons had welcomed him as a raconteur who added zest. to any party. He was widely admired-first as a roadbuilding, budget-balancing governor of North Carolina, most recently as an Under Secretary of the Treasury in whom businessmen had full confidence. Almost everybody could find something to like about this hearty "liberal conservative" with the homespun manner and the gilt-edged bank account. And almost everybody wanted to give him a farewell party before he left...