Word: preciousness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ever since the Pharaohs, men have been getting cleverer & cleverer at making imitation gems. Almost every precious stone now has a man-made twin. Last week the Linde Air Products Co. (a unit of Union Carbide & Carbon Corp.) announced that it had finally produced "star" sapphires and rubies...
...Arabs and the British that they should immediately make room for them in little Palestine? Who can read the reports of the terms in which organizations like the American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars . . . turned thumbs down on the Stratton bill without perceiving that something morally precious has gone out of American life -something the ancients called magnanimity of soul...
Early one morning last week, Farmer Frederick Henry Dennis, 34, looked out over his 1,000-acre farm at Poslingford Hall, Suffolk. He saw a strange young man drive a big caterpillar tractor into a 20-acre field of ripe buckwheat and calmly begin to plow in the precious crop. Dennis ran towards him, cursing and shouting...
...saturated in a kind of allegorized romanticism that is curiously musty. There are moments when the film almost achieves what it works so hard for-the enchantment of the audience. But enchantment is closely related to sleep; all in all, sleep is what this exquisitely contrived but rather precious film is likelier to induce...
Described as "America's most precious lunatic" by ordinarily venomous critics, Perelman occupies his own peculiar niche among top-ranking humorists. His biting, savoury style, bolstered by an endless supply of weird adjectives, signals a rocking belly laugh among even the most profound readers. For this adulation Perelman depends upon a speedy change of pace in the sequence of stories, the ridiculous image, and a willingness to play the fool for the benefit of his audience...