Word: priceless
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...drawing itself is careless and not up to the artist's usual good work. The person who drew the lady in the African river should be instructed in anatomy. With the air filled by anthropology Professors who discuss the "missing link" over the radio, nothing could be more priceless than the first picture in the magazine, a chip of the Old Sod. The "Prologue" is above reproach...
...LONG GREEN GAZE -Vincent Fuller-Huebsch ($2.00). Reading a detective story, did you ever want to be the detective? Here is your chance-unless you gave up crossword puzzles for Lent. A rapid murder story unfolds -rich old lady, priceless emerald, circle of relatives, mystical Babu-soluble only through the answers to eight puzzles discovered near the crime-scene. For quitters and non-detectives, the answers are sealed in the back of the book...
Germany has its industry, England its stolidity, and America its ingenuity, but to France has fallen the priceless gift of arousing the world to laughter. While governments tremble and nations totter on the brink of war, a solemn conclave meets in Paris, not to decide the next premier nor to formulate new regulations to assist the birthrate, but--to select the best chef in France...
...fine chateau, fattening on the income from rich abbeys and priories; how Mary, the little prisoner queen of Scotland, addressed him from her dungeon; how Tasso, poet of Italy, consulted him on this and that matter of technique? With most of the other frills and furbelows of his day, priceless and brilliant though they were, Poet Pierre is all but forgotten save by those French folk who make it their business to keep alive the glory that was Gaul and the grandeur of early French letters...
According to the rules of the game, the man who fails to vote has no justification for complaining about the result. The conclusion is plain. If one wishes to criticize the government during the next four years (and who would give up that priceless privilege?) voting is the prerequisite. But with the choice one of a sphinx, a knee-breached diplomat, or a great wind there is none who will not be eager to choose...