Word: priceless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ambassador Davies to his alma mater last year (TIME, May 31, 1937), it formed part of a collection of 122 pre-revolutionary and contemporary paintings and rare 18th to 18th-Century icons taken out of Russia after elaborate negotiations, insured for a reputed sum of $100,000 and called priceless. Visitors to the first public showing in the U. S. found the 96 paintings prime examples of colorful, realistic, popular art, ranging from Klavdii Labedev's classic The Fall of Novgorod, to almost photographic scenes of factory and peasant life by Soviet artists. Watching the reaction of Wisconsin students...
With the specimen were priceless samples of primitive embroidery, depicting in vivid colors, gods, demons, and preserved human heads which the Indians collected as a hobby...
...alarm which rang at 4:12 o'clock in the afternoon of December 31 startled the Lehman Hall office into quick and decisive action. Meanwhile the dauntless burglar was helping himself to priceless South American trinkets from the showcases of the Museum...
...another 20th Century-Fox picture, "Double Danger." The hero and heroine are highly respectable jewel thieves, and when the picture opens they are engaged in competition, although the ultimate merger does not come as a complete surprise. The strength of the picture lies in the ingenious methods by which priceless diamonds are successfully stolen and "high-jacked" with the utmost case. The film marks a departure from the commonplace and rounds out a bill that is entertaining, if not breath-taking...
...Laborite M.P.'s who had been visiting Valencia's law courts, were on their way to a luncheon at the officers' training camp. The nearest bomb fell at least a quarter of a mile away, but the Rightist's radiorating Queipo de Llano soon made priceless Leftist propaganda by bellowing that the British Laborites are "Marxist scoundrels and a pack of savages whom we will punish as they ought to be punished...