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...toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in its head...
Thus did the Tariff Bill come last week to the Senate. The House had passed it the day before. Clerks stamped the precious copy, entered its presence and pedigree in great journals, shuttled it away to the Senate Finance Committee where Chairman Reed Smoot and other Republican members prepared to lay rough and critical hands upon...
...Street than was sober-sided Ishbel MacDonald, who was her father's official hostess, is much the same quiet sort of girl and leaves flamboyance to her parent. Of all the progeny of the Big Three, the most curious is Oliver Baldwin, a young man once thin and precious, now plump and still precious. A member of Oxford's most esoteric circles, he fought in the Armenian army, was imprisoned in Turkey, entered the Labor Party at home chiefly to annoy his father. He let a rumor go around for a while that he was engaged to marry...
...precipitation test is especially precious to distinguish tuberculosis meningitis from other forms of that brain disease...
...academic community of the far-reaching influence and prestige of Yale has a definite news value in the public prints. When she speaks or acts, the press responds with its precious space. Official opinion receives its journalistic recognition, as well as the words of anyone connected with its various departments. The four letters which compose her name represent good copy...