Word: preciously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chief emphasis of the exhibit is on the skill of the European artisans shown in small objects of decorative and practical use. Represented are crafts of tapestry-weaving, goldsmithing, enameling, bronze-casting, carving in crystal and other precious stones, steel works, and book making...
Filed for probate fortnight ago in Washington was the will of Mrs. Robert Todd Lincoln, the Emancipator's daughter-in-law who died last month at the age of 90 (TIME, April 12). One of the Lincoln family's few precious objects which had not already been given to the Government was the Healy portrait of Lincoln, which showed him, nearly lifesize, seated with legs crossed, one finger along his cheek, the other hand clutching the chair arm. Robert Todd Lincoln, who became Secretary of War, Minister to the Court of St. James and president of Pullman...
...CATHOLICS WE ARE APPALLED BY THE SACRIFICE IN PRECIOUS HEALTH THAT THE VIA CRUCIS OF THE MOTHER CHURCH IS COSTING OUR HOLY FATHER. WE HUMBLY SUGGEST HIS HOLINESS CONSIDER RETIRING TO A TRANQUIL LIFE LEAVING HIS ARDUOUS TASK TO AN ENLIGHTENED AMERICAN PRELATE WITH FRESH VIGOR TO CONTINUE THE STRUGGLE FOR CHRISTIAN JUSTICE. YOUR OBEDIENT CHILDREN...
...there to surprise the critical. By its constitution the National Academy gives members the right to show one pic ture in the annual exhibition. Not all take advantage of this but there are 311 academicians. In addition, a certain number of artists are invited to submit works, which leaves precious little wall space for the thousands of uninvited canvases that the conservative hanging committee must annually examine, reject...
...choice expressions and the Keeper of the King's Privy Purse was finally coerced to the phone. Among dignitaries of the Court, all now thoroughly tired of Windsor, the expression was current this week: "If he gets what he probably will get, the Royal Family will have precious little personal income left for themselves during the next five years...