Word: precious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...creative." Commander Hartley (Blaine Cordner), an affable, scout-masterish publicity hound, is in such a glow over U. S. annexation of Antarctica that he is not aware his men call him a tinplate hero behind his back, or that his pompous planting of flags and food caches has consumed precious time which might prevent the relief ship from getting through the fast-knitting ice. When radio messages from the ship abruptly cease, he takes to futile bawling and sulking in his private cubbyhole. His shillyshallying in the face of a near mutiny results in the loss of an aviator...
...remunerative* work for publishers, advertising agencies and type founders, the Goudys still do with their own hands all the work of the original Village Press. Bertha Goudy has a collection of 29 lively tropical birds. Chief of the aviary is a parrot whose printable vocabulary is limited to "Tombo-precious...
...alley tough who could make a dishonest living if he could ever bring himself to run away from the police. After he has gone to jail for putting two good cops in the hospital, his mistress Aggie, with a celerity only possible in the cinema, meets bis opposite, a precious, rich, bespectacled country boy (Charles Farrell). By throwing away his spectacles, telling him to talk out of the corner of his mouth, giving him the Irish name of her jailed lover, she turns the country poltroon into a man-eater and a construction gang boss, then falls in love with...
...Conant the House. Show him our walls, without any portraits. Show him the fireplace in our dining hall, without anything with which to build a fire. Show him how well you can hear through the thin partitions in our rooms. But treat him carefully, for he is very precious. And return him to the Master's lodgings within the hour...
...editors of the CRIME wasted precious time yesterday afternoon waiting for the New England dignitaries to come out into the open from their secret revels in University Hall. Greeted by the undignified rattle of dishes from the upstairs windows, and by the very halting emergence of notables, the editors formed their peculiar and untimely opinion that they were in favor of a wholesale inauguration or none at all. They wanted a big jamboree at which students might roam; eating sandwiches and looking around for the new president...