Word: priceless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Following with naive exactitude the plot of Marlene Dietrich's "Dishonored", "Mata Hari" tells the story of the fascinating secret agent of the Central Powers who is employed to extract priceless secrets from allied officers but eventually sacrifices honor and country for love. Afterwards comes the scene in the sombre prison. As in "Dishonored", the heroine in one sequence seats herself at the piano, plays stirring tunes while her lover watches. Ramon Navarro is the young officer who falls victim...
...library building is now complete and we shall put into it our priceless collection of celestial photographs when we move into it in the first week of February," Professor Shapley said. "By the addition of the building to our present cramped quarters, which is larger than the rest of the station combined, we shall gain seven offices and a lecture room, besides the housing for the books and photographs...
...Allen, widely known poet and novelist, will speak tonight on one of his intimate acquaintances. Amy Lowell. The lecture will be held in the new Poetry Room on the third floor of Widener Library, dedicated to Morris Gray '77, Amy Lowell, and George Woodberry '77, and filled with their priceless collections of rare and first-edition poetical works. The room is small and attendance at this lecture is limited of necessity. The talk will be held at 7.30 o'clock...
...this belief, so frequently heard, lies in the argument that in a university of some size personal contact with instructors is impossible. This is, to a large extent, true. The intimacy between the teachers and the taught that is bred in a small college is one of its most priceless advantages, while it is well nigh impossible to establish any friendly acquaintanceship at an institution such as Harvard save by some artificial stimulus...
...lives in jeopardy at the same time." Up to last week all Wellesley visitants continued to report that First Lady Mei-ling pours tea in a Chinese gown of finest silk, wears shoes of Wellesley (not Chinese) cut, speaks English with a Boston accent, affects plenteous diamond & platinum rings, priceless jade earrings. When an alumna exclaims, "What a beautiful old vase!" Mme Chiang is apt to reply gracefully, "Yes, quite old. But that white jade one there is older, 800 years...