Word: precious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last quarter of a football game invariably seems to drag on forever. Time outs are frequent, and strained nerves magnify the precious seconds as they slip by. During the final dozen plays or so, every one of the thousands of spectators who pack the giant stadia of the country every autumn Saturday is thinking almost constantly of the amount of time left before the last whistle. And it seems reasonable to suppose that every one of them is entitled to know kow many minutes there are remaining...
...sent official messages of condolence to the German Embassy in Paris, the German government, followed them with a very personal message for his friend's wife: "I beseech you to believe in my sorrowful sympathy in the mourning which strikes you so cruelly. I shall ever guard a precious memory of your husband who in following a common ideal gave me an opportunity of appreciating the high level of his views and the perfect loyalty of his character." It was significant of the world's opinion that editors everywhere wasted little time with formal obituaries. In Germany newspapers...
...children and four neighbors to death with an axe and burned down the house. When Architect Wright rebuilt it, Miriam Noel, English sculptress who had fallen in love with his picture, joined him first as mistress, then as wife. She was obliged, for lack of money, to use precious but musty draperies for clothes. she left for a "vacation," and her husband promptly took an ad interim companion. There followed divorce, his marriage to a Montenegrin dancer, Olga Milanoff, for a span his mistress, a second burning of his hill house, a third building thereof...
Diamonds. Tormented are many U. S. customsmen and all legitimate jewelers by the smuggling of small, easily hidden precious stones. Honest diamond dealers, undersold by the smuggled article, have banded together into the American Jewelers Protective Association of which Meyer Rothschild of Manhattan is president. This organization, touchy and suspicious, cooperates with U. S. agents to prevent diamond smuggling, receives tips on smugglers, collects U. S. rewards for incentive to smuggle...
...private distinction which has marked "Evergreen" hospitality. There, a dinner menu elaborately inscribed on a gold-bordered card is set in a little gold holder before each guest, that he may gauge his appetite. And, dinner done, guests may wander through a library where tier on tier of precious old books are the envy of every bibliophile...