Word: seeker
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...autograph seeker interrupted the ex-champion's thoughts and when he returned it was to dwell on his pet hate, the newspapermen. "Why, in the old days if any writer had dared hint that a fight was fixed he'd have been run out of town, but today that's the first thing they think about. That's the trouble with these writers...
Rembrandt Harmens van Rijn was no eccentric, no drunkard, no lecher, no misanthrope, no hermit, no seeker after scientific truth. He simply loved to paint. He also loved mankind and knew it as few painters have ever known it. He liked money and what money bought; he knew everybody in Amsterdam from the famed Burgomaster Jan Six to his Amsterdam Ghetto neighbors, the Portuguese Jews, and the tramps and prostitutes along the spotless city's spotty waterfront. He spent most of his life turning out an amazing total of paintings, etchings and drawings, most of them first rate...
Richard Evelyn Byrd : "His real talent, as I intimately saw him, was that of a promoter. . . . I don't believe that he is a self-seeker. His presentation of self is just good showmanship. . . . A Virginia gentleman, imbued with an exploration mission in life, with the left eye slightly cocked on the profit...
...presumptuous as usual in her assumption as to what I intended or did not intend relative to Miss Perkins. Why should I answer her? Nothing she ever says is worth answering. The obvious fact to sensible people is that Mrs. Roosevelt is the obvious type of cheap headline seeker...
When Ethel Leginska decided ten years ago that she would be a conductor, musicians and laymen regarded her as an eccentric, a publicity seeker who was ambitious beyond her sex. Leginska pioneered valiantly if erratically, proved that women could wave a baton as capably as they could play the harp or violin. Last week, by coincidence, two lady conductors turned ambitious backs in Manhattan's Town Hall...