Word: priceless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Speaking of this subject dear to the heart of all, Bob Lang had some interesting things to say about common sense the other day--and after all these weeks of germination and cultivation of this priceless possession. Gordon Koppert and Chris Kottoff with their usual alertness wish it known that whatever Bob said has only limited application...
...card games with Harpo Marx and George Burns are riots of unbowdlerized storytelling. Though Holtz can come up with cracks like "I hope your marriage lasts as long as mine seems," his forte is not quotable nifties, but lengthy yarns, (whose point scarcely matters) that he tenderly unrolls like priceless fabrics richly embroidered with dialect. Fall guy of some of the best of them is Sam Lapidus, whose name Holtz lifted from a building sign 20 years ago. Typical Lapidus yarn (one fourth actual size): Finishing a stylish dinner, Sam and a friend from Tzicagi (Chicago) are confronted...
This week Germany stood all but alone. Finland was following Rumania out of the war, more decisively than had feckless Bulgaria (see FOREIGN NEWS). With her went her priceless stores of nickel, manganese and cobalt. Fat, foolish Hungary lay open to the Russians. The "holy soil" of the Reich itself had already been torn by the tracks of U.S. tanks. The haze before the beast's eyes deepened. Soon night would shut...
...combined Junior and Senior Classes will be ready for distribution about two weeks hence. If the galley proofs are any criteria, it will be far better than we had planned. There will be an announcement made in the next few days as to the time collections for this priceless annual will be made. Because of the deposit which must be made to the printer, some advance payment will have to be made...
Vince Di Maggio (batting average: .264), slick-haired, outfielding elder brother of peacetime Yankee Outfielder Sergeant Joe, vigorously ignored the $4.50-a-day meal ticket allowed to Pittsburgh Pirates on the road. In a single Philadelphia sitting he ate $9.97 worth, charged it to the club. Possessor of a priceless 4-F rating (for stomach ulcers), he dared the Pittsburgh management: "If you think I eat too much, trade...