Word: precious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Precious. Complete and unassumed inanity is often the means whereby pretty women entice money out of old and stupid men. On this despondent theme, James Forbes (The Famous Mrs. Fair, The Show Shop) constructed this sometimes witty but usually laggard little farce, which was mistakenly provided by Rosalie Stewart, perhaps the most astute among Manhattan's female producers. "Precious" is the name of a girl, in some respects resembling the popular conception of Peaches Browning, who marries and mines a rich elderly man. At length, he grows tired of being the goat and palms "Precious" off on a young...
...SACRED DUTY TO PRESERVE THE UNITY OF THE STATE BY EVERY MEANS IN MY POWER. TO SEEK TO REMOVE THESE ABUSES BY FRESH ELECTIONS WOULD HAVE BEEN A WASTE OF TIME AND VALUABLE ENERGY. BY SUCH METHODS WE HAVE ALREADY LOST MANY PRECIOUS YEARS. WE MUST TRY OTHER METHODS AND TREAD NEW PATHS...
Cotton Mather, whose father was in College in Dunster's time paid a tribute in the "Magnalia" to the learning piety, and saintliness of the first President. Of his humaneness we have a few precious contemporary records. Dunster married the widow Glover, whose first husband brought over the famous printing, first in the English colonies. With the widow, Dunster acquired the press--which was operated in his house, on the site of Massachusetts Hall...
...course I was eager to know more about the find. When I reached Tun-Huang, I was first somewhat disappointed to hear that my friend Sir Aurel Stein, head of the British expedition, had already been in Tun-huang ahead of me and had taken away loads of the precious documents. But my disillusion did not last long. When I entered the cave containing the manuscripts. I saw that most of them were still there. Of the 15000 scrolls, documents, paintings, Sir Aurel Stein had only been able to acquire about one fourth, and, being an Indian...
...South, selling it at $2 in the North. Some days he bought $800,000 worth, only to lose it (well insured) on the Mason Dixon line. One day, pursued by a Rebel patrol, he tossed them his wallet stuffed with $300,000, and made off with his more precious life...