Word: priceless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...accused of being a collaborationist because he had sold Hermann Göring a priceless Vermeer. Van Meegeren pleaded guilty to forging the picture: instead of trafficking with the enemy, he had tricked him. And Göring, had been only one of his victims : Van Meegeren confessed that six "Vermeers" and several "Pieter de Hoochs" lining the Palace of Justice walls were really the work of his hand. Last week Forger Van Meegeren was sentenced to a year in jail...
...same time that Kennedy was blowing his trumpet and cornet in Cambridge, Louis Armstrong and Bix Beiderbecke were in the national spotlight on these instruments respectively. Both are among the cornerstones of Kennedy's record collection, which also includes nearly every now priceless record Bing Crosby made before he started to groan and ceased to sing with Paul Whiteman and the Rhythm Boys...
...Such priceless evidence of contemporary scholarship is unfortunately very costly, according to Librarian Keyes D. Metcalf. Replacing course books rendered illegible by doodlers runs into hundreds of dollars per annum. A Library Council rule passed in 1937 assesses anyone who marks books for the full price of the volume, but it has proved difficult to enforce...
...dusky St. Louis song-&-dance woman (Josephine Baker) had ruled the jungle of the Folies Bergère clad only in several bananas" [TIME, June 16]. This is a wonderful typographical error (bandanas), priceless...
...heat of the arena, see you as the great Chief Justice, Lord Mansfield, so often saw you, as your clients . . . and so many others saw you when they listened, spellbound and enthralled, while you were championing not their rights alone, but the rights of all men who possess the priceless heritage of liberty under English law. . . . Burst your marble fetters! Strip off your cerements of oil and canvas...