Word: priceless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only knew how sumptuous all this was!" cried an aged Russian servitor. "The broken windows are stuffed with paper now, but 16 years is a long time! With no more money coming from St. Petersburg what was His Excellency to do but sell first the priceless carpets from Turkestan, then the gold service, the tapestries and at last even the chairs...
...every year of the Depression. "There is a decidedly more encouraging outlook," he purred. "My question is not answered," snapped the woman. "If you were to wipe out the salaries of all the general officers of the company," the officer replied, "it would amount exactly to 6? a share." Priceless Schwab. Salaries were also the sorest subject at a stockholders' meeting in Newark. The Federal Trade Commission two months ago listed Chairman Charles M. Schwab of Bethlehem Steel as the highest-paid executive in the U. S. in 1932, bonuses excluded. He received...
Emil A. Marklewitz who teaches German ("Priceless literary gems were written in German") earns his living as a high-school physics instructor. Joseph R. Blanco, a Reo foreman, teaches Spanish. A high-school teacher and a radio service man explain the mysteries of Radio ("Understand this marvel of the Age"). Alpha Pearl, who teaches the school's most popular course. Stenography ("A profession to professionals-a great convenience to others") at the Y. M. C. A. building, practices her vocation by day at the Kirby Mercantile Agency. There are courses in Dramatic Interpretation at the Reo Club House...
Bluntly, Tischendorf stole the priceless book, and sold it to the Russian Tsar. . . . The monastery never ceased its intermittent efforts to get back the manuscript, although they were given a small sum by the Tsar, as a sort of ''hush money...
...mere announcement that Remington Rand is instrumental in presenting the feature should be priceless advertising for the sponsors. Additional advertising announcements detract from the favorable impression first created. . . . A. F. McCRORY...