Word: priceless
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...press, however, favored an independent hall for the famed dead, while an addition to the Abbey was favored by the Cathedral Commission, which recommended the raising of $2,500,000 in the Commonwealth and the U. S., "who value and venerate these noble buildings as a priceless heritage of our Christian civilization," for repairs to various English cathedrals...
Queen. The extent of her surprise may be gauged, therefore, when she was introduced to a perfectly ordinary woman dressed in perfectly ordinary clothes, albeit a bit out of fashion. Not only did Queen Mary not wear a crown, nor her gorgeous coronation robes of state (although a priceless rope of pearls was around her neck and two fascinating diamonds glittered in her ears), but she showed every evidence of the charm that one expects in a human woman...
...Pine Manor on an afternoon's bender and just sick because she can't stay for the tea dancing. To her, everything--including her escort--is wonderful. Her room mate knows a man who is substitute something on Dartmouth's second team and my dear, you should see him: priceless! A light line but she manages to cover territory in a surprisingly short period of time...
...Reisner suspected it was the tomb of Queen Hetep-Heres, mother of Cheops, and many months of meticulous examination and removal of priceless debris proved him right. It was the first intact tomb ever found of a person of the Fourth Dynasty...
...Monday night recently, the guard assigned to the miniature portraits room of the Metropolitan took sick, was sent home to recover. The next morning, it was discovered that a glass case had been jimmied, that six priceless portraits painted on ivory framed with diamond-studded gold had been niched. As usual, detectives were perplexed as to the motive of the crime. If the sneaks had coveted the miniatures for their $10,000 ivory, gold and diamond value, a search might profitably be conducted through the pawnshops. If the infinitely more valuable artistic qualities had been coveted, it must have been...