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...Stillwater, Minn. Foreseeing that in the coming years death would decimate their ranks, they founded the Last Man's Club. Each year they agreed to meet again on the anniversary of the battle. A bottle of wine was dedicated to the last man, who should open the precious bottle and drink a toast to his departed comrades...
...publisher's stock has ever done so. It was deemed remarkable until one realized that the market over which Curtis Publishing gained its leadership, in which it was the highest priced for a day, was that of unlisted securities traded over brokers' counters. These are the precious shares whose owners esteem them too valuable for the dickerings of the stock exchange. Many a day not a share of such stocks is asked for, or offered...
...Zeus that later Greeks professed to believe that it had descended from heaven by the will of the gods. A single contemporary description exists- that of Pausanias. "It was an image made neither of marble nor of bronze, but of gold and ivory, embellished with ebony, lacquer, and precious stones." The god, he said, held a Victory on his right hand; his left rested on a sceptre on which was perched an eagle. The throne and a footstool were elaborately carved with figures and reliefs, depicting the contests of Centaurs and Lapiths, the wars and weddings of those creatures, part...
...temple he seized the invitation as a good excuse for getting out of Athens. It is unlikely that he worked in "gold and ivory"; he was no metalsmith although he cast some of his heads in bronze; he would not have known what to do with the "lacquer and precious stones" that Pausanias talked about. He doubtless made this god, like his others, of Parian marble, or the pale veined marble from Naxos; artisans polished the stone until it resembled ivory, and added the gilt. The head discovered by Professor Guidi bears evidence of such gilding and polishing. What happened...
Eucharistic Congress. No treasure is too great for Roman Catholics to pour out in their honoring of Christ. Kings brought rich gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh to the Infant. Mary Magdalene brought to Him her alabaster box of precious ointments and broke it at His feet in her repentance. Cathedrals have gone up in magnificent pomp for the housing of the Host. All have been for the honoring of Christ in the Eucharist...