Word: priceless
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...companions led their lonely lives. Here, too, the widow kept many of his choicest antiques, which at the time of his death a year ago last June, were valued at over $100,000. Among his collections were rooms filled with rare old glassware, century-old clocks, antique furniture, and priceless old books...
...Juilliard Foundation has always been generous. For a number of years it has granted foreign fellowships to advanced students of Music who have shown decided promise. The Juilliard fellows journeyed gaily to Paris, Rome, Berlin, Vienna, inhaled the artistic atmosphere, drenched themselves in strong aesthetic traditions, acquired a priceless joie de vivre. Also, there were champagne, liqueurs and sometimes instruction at the feet of a foreign Maestro...
...been a matter of the greatest secrecy and not infrequently a matter of disaster. The Academy hopes to make it an international study, thus protecting museums and private owners of the treasures of the past. Whereas the Louvre has been overcautious, for years allowing varnish to darken her priceless paintings, Germany and Holland have gone to the other extreme, scrubbing and revarnishing to a state of startling newborn brilliance. In the U. S., the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard has recently been concerned with this problem. Under Director Edward W. Forbes it has been carrying on a great deal...
...Russia was to be renamed Leninia or Leninland lacked confirmation. Petrograd has already been named Leningrad (TIME, April 14). Under the Kremlin walls in Moscow excavations were made for a permanent Lenin tomb. Popular superstition has had it for many centuries that there exists an "underground Kremlin" full of priceless treasures of medieval Tsars. This has been discovered to be fact, and the Bolsheviki, having discovered many wondrous things, are fired with the hope of extracting riches undreamed...
...POTTERS-A salty, amusing picture of an American family being saved from its own priceless mutton-headed ways...