Word: precious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thing you must consider precious above all others, Mussolini's life...
...there should be no mistaking the ponderous esteem in which the city's gentility hold Mardi Gras. To receive the precious envelope with a little number in one corner is to be touched by Fortune for some girls and not to receive it is vexatious humiliation to others, for only those who have the little numbers may dance with Maskers. The old aristocracy does not forget the relative importance of the various clubs: Comus, the oldest, Atlanteans, Momus, Twelfth Night, Mystics, a score of others, nor does it become too freely intrigued with street processionals...
...John Randolph loved books, horses, and dogs. . . . Returning home one evening he found that one of his most precious books had been gnawed by his favorite dog Beppo. Instead of chastising the dog he simply took up the fragments of the book and wrote on one of the remaining leaves: 'Beppo aid this when he was drunk.' As to the speech of the Senator from Alabama, I can say: 'He made his speech when he was excited.' " [Laughter and applause in the galleries...
...head of practically all industries? The Jew! Who owns our theatres? The Jew! Who writes the plays that are produced? The Jew! Who rides about in automobiles, who revels in the night resorts, who crowds the cafes and fashionable restaurants, who covers himself and his wife with pearls and precious stones...
...peculiar responsibility rests upon these four: to match the tradition of Kneisel, to play upon the instruments of Antonio Stradivari. Felix M. Warburg provided each one with a precious Stradivari, a taut, light, sensitive, beautiful creature that quivers to the slightest vibration of a string, laughs, cries, pleads, cajoles to the mood and art of the musician. These are not things. They are temperaments, identified by their own names for centuries, treasured, loved by the men who have been fortunate to know their richness. The "Titian" was once owned by Efrem Zimbalist. The "Viola Mac Donald" was born...