Word: precious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Seventh Day. Harassed on the one hand by harsh fatigue, on the other by the passing of precious time, Schlee & Brock swung the Pride of Detroit into the air from Bagdad and flew to Bender Abbas, Persia...
Reminding the assembled U. S. Laborites that "the fathers of American liberty allowed precious little democratic freedom during the War of Secession," he referred to the ogre-like pictures drawn of Bolshevism in foreign countries. He concluded: "Go back and tell your fellow citizens, if you will, that the Soviet is not so bad as all that, and although the Communists are the chief enemies of private property, when they make agreements with capitalists they will fulfill them honestly...
...those tears are precious, for they show that the grace of God and the tenderness of Jesus have at last wormed their way even into the hard, flint-like heart of a scorner and a scoffer...
...McKelvie trip also found the President photographed in a new role?that of gold-miner. "Panning" gold in Slate Creek, after the fashion of the early prospectors, the President secured a few particles of the shining precious metal. Thus cinema patrons were assured of seeing Miner Coolidge and Fisherman Coolidge as well as Cowboy Coolidge. Mrs. Coolidge also panned gold and .succeeded in "getting color...
...restored the shaken finances of France. All the Ministers were there, even Mi Briand, just now recovered from his attack of "strawberry rash" (TIME, June 27), but no one of the assembled statesmen had an air so sly as that of Minister of Justice Louis Barthou, who carried a precious package...