Word: preciously
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Last week's shipment was surrounded with the greatest precautions. Mint guards, Post Office inspectors, Secret Servants toiled all one night under the direction of Madam Director Ross carting the precious canvas-wrapped bricks from the Philadelphia Mint. By next morning they had their precious load packed neatly in four mail coaches of a special nine-car train that was manned by crack machine gunners concealed behind drawn blinds. With right of way cleared, the train chuffed off on its 530-mi. journey. Several hundred yards in front of the gold train went a dummy freight train...
...chasing and being chased by a blonde adventuress (Binnre Barnes) in New York, the three sisters, unbeknown to their broken-hearted, divorced mother, take ship for America to make a counter-attack against the "enemy." They gain their first point when "Penny" interrupts every attempt of their papa's "Precious" to talk at luncheon; later "Penny" drags her bed across the floor while the adventuress is singing (?) below, thus winning a second objective. "Precious" and her simpering mother (Alice Brady) try to persuade the easy-going father to ship his daughters back the next day, but so well do they...
...Catholics read nothing but their diocesan papers in recent months they would have heard precious little of their Holy Father's declining health until it began making secular front pages daily. Stubbornly denying until recent weeks that the Pope's ailments were at all serious, Vatican functionaries set up a censorship of telephone calls, the word always perforce being: "The Pope is well." When the Pope learned at Christmas time what was being printed about him, he ex- claimed: "I must get up, sit on the sedia gestatoria and bless the pilgrims." Last week when few doctors could...
...Public Works should be rated important enough for a separate department, Terming the Interstate Commerce Commission a "headless, fourth branch of the Government, over which the constitutional Chief Executive has little control," the Brownlow Committee reveals how clearly it worked with the President and how it thought of his precious power...
...tons of ice fed through grinders to keep the floor and ski slide snowy. During performances of the show, spectators were spellbound when workmen fed one of the machines 50-lb. chunks of ice, which it chewed into flakes, spewed out of a six-inch hose, as glittering, precious Snow...