Word: precious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...amours to the artist's sister. Romantic, she believes his lovemaking goes no further than moonlight and roses; but a kiss he snatches at a midnight rendezvous opens her eyes. She considers him carnally voluptuous. Then a threatened operation for the vapid mother makes this flapper understand how precious Mother and her fogey ideas really are. Bathos...
...burglar attempted to burgle the Bureau of International Weights and Measures. He was foiled by the janitor. Within the Bureau building is the Standard Metre and a number of delicate instruments and standards, all made of platinum, iridium or other precious metals...
...Constantinople, police were ordered to supervise the households of the Caliph and the Imperial Princes with a view to preventing the removal of precious objects...
...rather than fictitious literary criticism with decided success; the Advocate could do very well with something of the sort. Mr. Edmonds, in his "Lilace", risen to fanciful heights-but he shows a tendency to stay up for too long at one stretch. which gives a slight touch of the "precious" to his work; he does, however, put his final point across with neatness. The "Parable of Poetic License", by Mr. Leonard, is good imaginative fooling...
...India is the very cradle of civilization," he declared. "It is the fountainhead of much that is most precious among all peoples. Mathematics was invented there; poetry, literature, sculpture, painting, and philosophy have there been brought to their highest peaks...