Word: raconteurs
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...years ago in Chicago St. Dismas came into his own. The Good Thief attracted the whimsical but devout interest of a convert to Roman Catholicism, Dempster MacMurphy of the Daily News. Orator, raconteur, ex-song-&-dance man, MacMurphy was a well-born Southerner who added a "Mac" to his natal Murphy simply because there were no MacMurphys in the telephone book. He made a fortune as a vice president in the Insull empire, lost it in the crash, slept on park benches until he got a job on the News. One of his first News stories was about the feast...
...unveiling Baron Gabor de Bessenyey, scholar, raconteur, friend of the artist, orated, comico-seriously: "This is the 20th-century Last Supper. As in another picture of the same subject a banquet scene of the cinquecento was portrayed, here we have a typical genre picture of the 20th Century. In the original it was the last supper for One Man: in this, alas, it is often the last supper of many...
...using the same kind of pigments as the original painter employed. There are even more dodges conceived by the wily to defraud collectors, but Mr. Laurie shows how science defeats them -- even the ancient dodge of mutilation, in order to give the impression of age. He is a good raconteur, obviously full of the delights connected with his profession, and he tells many an interesting story about forgers like Icilio Federigo Ioni of Sienna, who fumed when an expert refused to look at a genuine picture which Ioni brought him--such had Ioni's reputation become. In a rage Ioni...
Frederick Walbridge Hoeing, proctor, instructor, raconteur, and goldfish keeper par excellence, sits at the desk before his History 1 "C" section. With eyes tightly closed, legs intertwined, and head resting on one hand, he rambles on, pointing out on the floor with his free hand the precise geographical situations of the Roman Church and the Holy Roman Empire. If, perchance, an extremely important idea hits him, be will make a vicious, but apparently meaningless line on the board, soon to be crossed by another equally pungent and equally obscure. At times of special stress the lines may become arrows flying...
Ranking radical ranter that he is, Shoemaker also has, at times, an engaging side. An artful versifier, a Shakespearean reader (with gestures), a raconteur, he can sit for hours recalling his Munchausen exploits. No sketch of him is complete without his own War story...