Word: stylist
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...hodge podge unique, but not altogether barren of interest. The economist might weep over two hundred dollar onions, or choke over a thousand dollar glass of water; the geologist might be alarmed over finding talc, even in California, to be a staple plantation product; but even the stylist would be intrigued by mountains "teaming with gold and platinum...
...many tinkling little Riviera tournaments and lost to Suzanne Lenglen and got appendicitis. She made no apologies for that match at Cannes. Mlle. Lenglen beat her because she is, still, a better match player. They hit the ball about equally hard; Miss Wills is somewhat the better stylist; Mlle. Lenglen is faster on her feet. But when they played at Cannes the sunburned gentlemen at the courtside were betting two-to-one against Miss Wills, and the odds, at their next encounter, will probably be the same. Odds are curious equations: they are often based on the personalities...
Thin Legs and Fat Legs trudged the golf hills. Sharp-faced Thin Legs was in his thirties; rubicund Fat Legs in his twenties. Thin Legs the wiry stylist, Fat Legs one of the most compact and well-oiled golfing units in the world. Where they walked, the sun had tarried long and close, until the hills steamed. They had walked, for miles, all others dropping. Thin Legs of Scotland, used to braw winds; Fat Legs of Georgia, fond of sweltering...
...into giving him three years unlimited credit, throwing teacups into the fire when heated by argument with a lady, sailing up the Thames in a steam launch with cigars, champagne, plovers' eggs in aspic. Mortared with the egotism of Mr. Ford, who jauntily refers to himself as "the finest stylist in England," the blocks fall into place; and slowly there looms up the spirit of Joseph Conrad, who in all the world would have loved nothing better than to have singed the king of Spain's beard; who once outwitted the Dutch Navy; and who wrote "the finest books...
...stylist, great as was Hugo's influence, it is probable that of Anatole France will be greater. A Frenchman can best appraise him. In the Revue Bleue of February 23, 1901, Fernand Gregh said. "Never was the French language better written. . . . It is simply perfection. Renan himself wrote less well as far as pure technique is concerned. . . . He is a brother through the centuries of Marot, Montaigne, Racine, La Fontaine, La Bruyere, Fenelon, Diderot, and Voltaire. He is the Frenchman. A man who is to such an extent representative, to use one of Emerson's expressions, is a rare...