Word: priceless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many a bourgeois Frenchman's fear that his new Government is far too chummy with Red Russia was voiced last week in the Chamber of Deputies when Deputy Henri de Kerillis accused Air Minister Pierre Cot of having given to Soviet Russia a priceless French secret: a model and blueprints for the 23-mm. machine gun with which France's huge "airfortress" planes are to be armed. This airplane "cannon," screamed Deputy de Kerillis, is the sole superiority France has over its potential enemies in the air. Scrappy, bespectacled Air Minister Cot replied that nations allied in pacts...
Nothing less than a British cruiser would do to carry from China to England last winter 21,000 items of Imperial Manchu art lent by the Chinese Government to the British Government for a great exhibition in London's Burlington House (TIME, Dec. 9). To return this priceless treasure, after it had been viewed by 422,048 persons, His Majesty's Government thriftily decided to use an ordinary steamship, the Peninsular & Oriental liner Ranpura, with a relay of naval escorts...
Although lost to the world for a period of 100 years, the priceless masterpiece was re-introduced by Mendelssohn at a concert in Berlin in 1829, precisely a century after its initial performance by Bach...
...Maundy Thursday Pius XI was to join his Court & Cardinals in a two-hour service in the Sistine and Pauline chapels, culminating when a consecrated Host, in a priceless ancient chalice of rock crystal studded with precious stones and etched with 13 scenes of the Passion of Our Lord, is placed on Solemn Exposition. On Good Friday, day of mourning, the Pope would neither wear his episcopal ring nor bless those who worshipped with him. In solemn procession he would return to the Pauline chapel, then bear the Host back to the Sistine chapel for the Mass of the Presanctified...
Hokum of the highest type has long been the priceless stock-in-trade of Robert Emmet Sherwood. Like all fictionists, he has perfected a basic story which serves as the standard framework of his profitable product. In a Sherwood play, the boy practically never gets the girl for keeps. But the lovers generally have a few final poignant moments together. Before Hannibal went back to Carthage in The Road to Rome (1927), he spent one night with Amytis. Before Archduke Rudolf Maximilian von Habsburg was rushed out of Austria in Reunion in Vienna (1931), he was vouchsafed an evening with...