Word: priceless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with her old French maid, seeing almost nobody until even more eccentric old Fitz-George, a millionaire miser and famed col lector, renews an acquaintance lapsed for 50 years. Then FitzGeorge dies, electrifies Lady Slane 's family and the nation by leaving her all his immense fortune, his priceless collection. When Lady Slane in turn hands over her unwelcome bequest to charity and a museum her children are furious but her own equanimity is restored. When one of her great-grandchildren comes to see her, to thank her for what she has done. Lady Slane is perfectly...
...brush up the songs. But he had followed his old formula: really beautiful girls, the best tap and ballet dancing that money can buy, principals who are currently at top popularity, and the most perfect mounting, dressing, laundering, discipline. To all this he had added his priceless ingredient, that dash of nostalgia to make people say "Good old New York, good old Broadway, good old Follies." And as he stood in the back of the darkened theatre, tired but happy in his working clothes (grey suit, blue shirt), he heard his opening night audience say just that. Next...
...President's camp boomed mountainside values. The Madison Timber Corp., putting a $1,000,000 price on land sought by the State, argued that their property was worth it, not entirely as timber perhaps, but as a potential summer resort. The President, they claimed, had given the region priceless advertising and had put in an 8 mi. road worth $200,000. and power and telephone lines worth another $100,000. They insisted that the presidential improvements enlarged the value of their timber land far beyond what Virginia was ready...
Since he had not managed to commit suicide, Stephen Auspitz pulled himself together, ordered sold at once for what it will bring his "priceless" collection of Italian paintings, feature of a loan exhibition in London last year. Explaining the bankruptcy of Auspitz, Lieben & Co., officials said that since 1924 they had made three distinct efforts to put the bank on its feet by speculation. They speculated against the French franc, were fooled and lost heavily when Raymond Poincare stabilized and rehabilitated the money of his country. Second they invested in Dutch industrials, lost more. Third they...
...high out of water. No such incident ever did or could occur. Let Reader Habicht examine his copy Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung more closely. Let him note that it is the annual April Fool's edition. Other pictures in that issue: A "3,000-year-old bas-relief of priceless worth," showing Assyrian gentlemen, playing the saxophone, their ladies drinking cocktails through straws at a bar. Scenes of "Al Capone at Home," showing the gangster's "Louis Quinze" boudoir through an enormous circular bank-vault door; an unwary visitor plunging through a trap door as Capone, sitting...