Word: precious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hour for the utmost sacrifices now has come. We must realize that the question to be or not to be lies for us in our financial, problem. This being the case, it seems to me inconsequential and superfluous to deliver a long speech about a program. Time is too precious for long discussions when the general need ever more urgently calls. Not words shall the people hear, but they shall see deeds. . . . We [the Cabinet] appeal to the patriotism and sense of duty of the people's representatives in requesting these extraordinary plenipotentiary powers...
...rich upon the havoc wrought by war, though their own comrades use it to extort a dole; yet is their sacrifice of undying value and untarnished splendor. It stands for a faith that life is but a means to a still greater end, that life has an object More precious far than life itself. No selfishness of man or nation can, blot their sacrifice or mock then faith, for through that faith alone is life worth living...
...staff, and other American residents stayed with us through the darkest hours of our calamity like soldiers at posts of duty, giving aid and comfort to our stricken people. Disasters may hurl down monuments of stone and bronze, time may wear them into dust, but nothing can destroy our precious memories of American service and heroism during the most appalling convulsion of the elements in all recorded history...
...late Lillian Russell, actress: "In Pittsburgh I filed charges against my stepfather, Alexander P. Moore, U. S. Ambassador to Spain. I accused him of gross mismanagement of my mother's estate, which now brings me only $50 a week. The proceeds of the sale of her belongings (including precious jewels and photographs autographed by princes and kings) amounted to only $40,000. My attorney said that this was inconceivably small...
...size, and believed by experts to be the model for a larger work never completed. That it was stolen at the instance of an art expert is indicated by the fact that a large reproduction of the picture in the same gallery was undisturbed. Other larger but less precious paintings were also found intact...