Word: priceless
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...Priceless, as an example of backwoods credulity feeding on religious bigotry, is the story (said to emanate from the Ku Klux Klan) that the 1917 Series of one-dollar greenbacks carries Catholic propaganda...
...lately bereft of its entire corps of servitors, he introduces a quartette of nobles from the vicinity of the Volga. One of these is smitten with an urge to paint and secures permission to copy a trio of Rembrandts which hang in the family mansion. The discovery that the priceless canvases have been removed from their frames in favor of the copies requires the services of a detective. Nobility is incarcerated in the wood cellar. The subsequent denouement is so uniquely ingenious that no journalistic commentary can disclose it with propriety. Indeed, it is fair to say that the ending...
...Yusupov Palace on the Liteiny Prospekt in Petrograd, is one of the finest of its kind in the former capital. Since the Bolsheviki assumed power it has become little more than a heap of ruins. Before the War, the Palace was crowded with priceless treasures. They were so well guarded that when King Edward VII, the then Prince of Wales, expressed a desire to his brother-in-law, Tsar Alexander III, to see the famed picture gallery in the Yusupov Palace, the Tsar was obliged to issue a command to Prince Nicholas, the present Prince Yusupov's grandfather...
...English company was criticized for filming Chu Chin Chow in Berlin. The company's reasons: with bankruptcy universal in Germany, modest hire brought strange Oriental animals from the Zoological Gardens, priceless Eastern objets d'art from the museums, plentiful extras...
...move about to different quarters of the Church to bow before the images and kiss the holy relics?a maneuvre which they both executed with great grace. The ceremony of the Coronation itself is very pretty, the Emperor first putting the crown (which is enormous, and I should think priceless from the mass of jewels it contains) on his own head, and then lifting it off and touching with it the head of the Empress, when he again places it on his own, and then takes the Empress in his arms and kisses...