Word: priceless
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tycoons. While the Bellhops hopped, the major figures of the U.S. delegation pursued more august courses. J. Pierpont Morgan spent part of the week with Parisian vendors of nearly priceless medieval illuminated manuscripts. Tycoons Owen D. Young and his alternate, Thomas Nelson Perkins, sped out to Cherbourg to meet the Olympic and their wives. Mr. & Mrs. Thomas W. Lament kept up their round of smart dinners, many with artists and litterateurs of the left bank...
...should prevent any strenuous demonstration, but mankind can rest assured that, having gotten into Congress, the weaker sex cannot be kept from the pulpit. If precedent means anything, a definite attempt to deny this right always carries with it the danger of a well wrapped brick being hurled through priceless stained glass...
...Story. In 1979 a chap with a scar was traveling to England, there to sell to the highest bidder priceless mineral deposits of his native West Irania. In the same year, another chap, without a scar, was traveling to England, there to see the world. Of Chap I the name was whatever happened to be convenient; of Chap II the name was Richard Mallard?he having no reason to conceal his identity...
...Calvin Coolidge was a great noman. Psychologically as well as financially he sought to be an astringent to his prosperity-swollen country. He took credit for Coolidge prosperity because it was politically expedient to do so, but he kept repeating that Coolidge economy was the priceless ingredient. He carried this thought to the picayune extreme of giving away only the pen nib, and not the pen holder, after signing important bills. The other, philosophical extreme was reached in his curt closing message to Congress and the country last December...
Duveen. None heard the rumors more quickly than stalwart, ruddy Sir Joseph Duveen. Whenever and wherever art dealers come in conflict over some priceless item, Sir Joseph is usually found sitting sedately nearest the prize with a millionaire look which defines and demands his desire. Duveen is unquestionably the most potent name in art marts of both hemispheres. The Duveen offices in Manhattan have an air of grim impregnability rather than a cordial fagade...