Word: priceless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the mystery was dispelled. Whitemarsh Hall had been the hideaway for the priceless art treasures of Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum...
Playboy Prince. Umberto's kingly education was a gaudy business. As a playboy princeling, he had some un-engaging ways: he was known to spit on the floors of houses where he was guest, grind his heels into priceless tables, organize treasure-hunt games and insist that every prize be a princely bauble. In Rome in 1930 he married Marie-José, only daughter of Belgium's beloved King Albert. Umberto's subsequent infidelities were on a royal scale. Marie-José wept, but did not go home...
...claimed relationship, Grandpa was a tyrant who made Clarence Day's father seem effete. Whether or not he was actually "the greatest living American," he did have a variety of attractions: his memories of General Grant, his Russian ballet girl, his box at the burlesque theater, his priceless cellar, his friendships with Mark Twain and numerous quaint characters of Manhattan's gilded...
...have run into painful decisions on when a shrine ceases to be a shrine and becomes an enemy artillery observation post (see p. 56). When the Allies approach Rome the eyes of the Christian world inevitably will be upon them, asking the mute question whether the city and its priceless antiquities must be left in rubble...
...showed that some priceless architectural monuments had already been wiped out or ruined. But in view of the ferocity of the Italian campaign, the damage was remarkably small. Few irreplaceable buildings were destroyed in Apulia or Calabria. Farther north the destruction was greater. Among the monuments completely demolished were: the 12th-Century cathedral at Benevento; Naples' Santa Chiara Church-the finest Gothic church in the city; the Church of the Incoronata, at Naples, which contained frescoes of the Sienese School...