Word: precious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Alluringly foreign are the names of precious unguents and their makers. But deep hidden under the black-bakelite boudoir jars of Terri's "Exquisite Face Powder" one may find the name of Terence Ryan, its maker. And famed Madame Helena Rubinstein is also called Mrs. Edward Titus. Laden with scents and sounds of the Orient, her most esoteric triumphs reach Manhattan from no more distant point than her factory on Long Island...
Full Week. Customers of New York Stock Exchange houses, particularly those trying to trade from the Pacific Coast, clamored against the recent five-day trading weeks and last week's four-hour trading days. The Western traders, being hours away from Manhattan, lost precious time for making, and losing, money. Manhattan operators lost commissions. That was one factor that induced the Exchange to resume full day & week trading. Another was that trading last week was lighter than in a very long time. And another factor was that Wall Street bookkeepers had in a measure caught up with their...
With deepest gratitude to you and the boys for my most precious treasure (the autographed set of Shakespeare), and with kindest personal regards, believe...
...said John Davison Rockefeller, at the age of 60, when he was fingering the yellowed leaves of a precious document, his own Ledger A, which he had kept as a 16-year-old assistant bookkeeper in a Cleveland commission house. That all-inclusive creed, conceived in youth, ex- pressed at the philosopher's age, was the lone recorded feat of Mr. Rockefeller's imagination. Otherwise, he has exhibited no great creative imagination. But give even a street car conductor a mighty creed, give him an almost perfect mathematical determination to carry it out, and he will build tracks...
Certain newspapers, ever mindful of the glory of equality, have "viewed with alarm" the sums spent to obtain the precious audiences. Characteristically have they demanded what returns the Americans received beside the privilege of bowing in and backing out of the presence of Their Majesties a question that can only be answered by the debutante of a few years ago whom a beefeater found writing on the King's private notepaper at the King's private desk, letters which are now worth a small fortune...