Word: priceless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...press descended on the Lord Chamberlain with whoops of joy. Said the London Daily Mirror's leader-writer: "What is clearly missing at the Lord Chamberlain's office is a share of that sense of humour which is Britain's priceless national possession. . . . Abolish the comedian, the cartoonist (and even the leader-writer) and there would soon be an Act of Parliament to restore them...
Before Jamestown or Plymouth was founded, two European artists roamed the forests of North America. They found the New World as lovely as a daydream and as weirdly frightening as a nightmare, painted it with wideawake precision and detail. Last week their historically priceless pictorial reporting, long scattered and out of print, was reissued in one of 1946's handsomest books (The New World, Duell, Sloan & Pearce...
...attained, Raffles turned homewards. Of the five children his wife had borne him in these years, only one had survived the scourges of malaria and dysentery. Worn out and sick, he chartered a ship, loaded it with the products of some 20 years' research in the East-a priceless harvest of botanical and zoological specimens, cartological and climatic studies, thousands of pages of native histories and racial researches. One day out, the ship took fire and sank, a total loss...
Last week Ruark reminded his readers that it was an even year since the Navy "granted me its most priceless boon, that final handshake." On his anniversary, he took inventory of his crusades. Mostly they were small-bore: by carefully contrived cracks against radio, Southern cooking, horse operas, hairdos and politicking veterans, he had snared 10,000 letters. They had called him a "fascist, warmonger, race baiter and moron. Added to draft dodger, horse hater, sadist and war criminal, it seems I am a very unsavory gent, indeed, and I sometimes wonder how I stand...
...Priceless Heirloom." Knutson's headquarters detachment, meanwhile, had been busy with that "priceless heirloom: the only building in America that brings us in contact with the Middle Ages." Holand reviews the several theories on the origin of the Newport landmark, including the widely accepted one that it was erected as a windmill by a Rhode Island colonial governor. Following Philip Ainsworth Means and others, and citing copious structural details, Holand concludes that the windmill theory is unsound-that the building was originally a "round, fortified stone church" of a type common in medieval Scandinavia. The builders: obviously, Knutson...