Word: priceless
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...erstwhile young scapegrace, it was touted, has brought back from the Occident more than a world-notorious name, has sown among his benighted people the priceless seeds of Western knowledge. . . . Cynics scented propaganda in the despatch, awaited more of the same from Sir Hari's highly paid and skillful British advisers. The late Maharaja, Sir Pratap Singh, has not been long in his grave (TIME, Oct. 5, MILESTONESQ, and the coronation of his nephew, Sir Hari (TIME, March 8), occurred so recently as to preclude $150,000 increase in the Kashmir forest revenues by any "Western" method- except...
Philadelphia, the Sesquicentennial Exposition City, last week was the recipient of priceless largesses. This time, from the art-crammed Spanish-Citadel cornucopia, flowed some sixty masterpieces of the Spanish Renaissance; Velasquezes; Goyas; Murillos; Fortunys; Goya tapestries; modern paintings (many Sorollas) ; old wrought-iron; ceramics; gossamer Spanish mantillas; delicate rapiers; daggers; rugs; Renaissance furniture...
Institute of Arts, where a scene of crime was revealed. Against the open window lay a woman, painted by Franz Hals, worth $40,000. Torn bodily from its place, disappeared, was an early Persian-silk animal rug, priceless example of its type and period. It, as well as the bust of the alabastine lady below, was the gift to the museum of Mr. and Mrs. Edsel Ford...
...judge by the space allotted them, must have seemed to Melba excruciatingly funny. There is nothing about the practical Melba, the Melba who promoted the first taxi company in Australia and made a fortune when Australia did nobly by its Nell. But there are anecdotes, many of them priceless, gossipy friendly ones, about such famed folk as Sarah Bernhardt, who coached her Marguerite; Wilhelm Hohenzollern, who flicked his fin gers and the Empress followed; King Edward VII, who felt obliged to discuss affairs of state all through her singing; Oscar Wilde, the last time she saw him a "tall, shabby...
From the tomb of Tut-ank-Amen and countless other mines of Egyptian treasure there come almost daily, priceless additions to the collections of the pitifullv inadequate and overcrowded museum at Cairo. For three months the Egyptian Cabinet has been trying to decide whether to accept $10,000,000 from John D. Rockefeller Jr. wherewith to build and endow forever a museum adequate beyond all dreams, a beautiful and safe repository, equipped to preserve these treasures by every means known to science (TIME, March 1, et ante...