Word: precious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wilhelm II's costliest whimsies as Kaiser and All Highest was to have the regalia of the Holy Roman Empire exactly duplicated in authentic jewels and precious metals. So perfect are these copies that only experts can distinguish them from the originals. Last week they were brought solemnly to Nuremberg and mysteriously displayed at the sixth annual National Socialist Party Congress...
...Capitol the last sprint began. Bird-Lying-Down carried the precious chamois bag. A crowd gathered at the South Gate of the White House grounds. Wearing loin cloths with disklike reflectors fore and aft, as protection against motor traffic, the 14 braves entered and jogged up the walk. In the silk-walled Blue Room the President received the naked Indians and the three kernels of corn inviting him to attend the peace celebration of the Six Nations at Fort Niagara on Sept. 3. He shook the Redmen's hands and said that he was sorry but he thought he could...
...Danube. And in Germany he would see crops so poor that people must eat potatoes once thrown to the pigs. In Russia the roar of 140,000 tractors hastily harvesting a premature crop, the shrill cries of village children scampering after the reapers to scoop up lost heads of precious wheat, would drive the traveling locust on into Northern China. There he might get his wings soaked in torrents of crop-destroying rain, if he did not fly to Western China. There drought and the sun would drop him to earth at last, scorch him to death at 115?...
...spent two sweltering nights in Omaha, at last chartered a special plane to take him to Portland, Ore. to make a similar speech. Two more speeches were in his brief case, one for Los Angeles, Calif., the other for Chicago. Between them lay an unwritten and far more precious plan?two weeks of rest somewhere in the mountains...
...cripple in unworthy love in 1915. Since then the book has sold some 300,000 copies and firmly established itself as a modern masterpiece. For years Hollywood has eyed it as a mighty challenge to the cinema's capacity to transfer literature to the screen without losing its precious essence. But there were real difficulties: Would the public accept a clubfooted hero? What was to be done with a love story involving a young man's revulsion from his baser instincts? How could a hateful shrew of a girl be portrayed by any actress known to Holly wood...