Word: priceless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While scholars pored over Polo family documents, including Marco's will, 500 tourists a day filed through the Doges' Palace to look at priceless works in bronze, jade, ceramics, textiles and lacquers, dating from the Yin dynasty (1766-1122 B.C.) to the Ming dynasty...
...Priceless Reward. Songo's carvings and paintings, sold to tourists who came to visit the school, eventually earned $100 -enough. Sam thought, to buy a wheelchair. Paterson did not have the heart to tell him that the chair, delivered in Africa, would cost more than $200; instead, he appealed to national-sweepstakes officials for the rest of the money. Now Sam cheerfully rolls himself around his work as he carves...
That his sculptures were being admired in far-off England did not impress him as much as the prestige they brought him at home. For primitive man needs praise as much as the urban intellectual. Sam's priceless reward was seeing the revulsion in a native woman's face at sight of him change to admiration when she saw his carvings. To Bachelor Sam she whispered: "Ah, but you are clever...
...Tact. By sheer grit, Catlin, burdened with painting materials, made his way among no less than 48 tribes in the space of seven years. By instinctive tact, he gained the hospitality of the Indians and overcame their superstitious fears of his brush and canvas. He came back with a priceless historical and artistic record consisting of some 500 pictures, and a lively respect for his Indian friends. Wrote Catlin in his journal: "An Indian is a beggar in Washington City, and a white man is almost equally so in the Mandan village. An Indian in Washington is mute, is dumb...
...idea to many Britons. What had been a titular role, her trip had made real. Said the Economist sternly: "Let the bells, the bands, the saluting cannonade ring over London with no note of jealous possessiveness, no claim that the capital is taking back to itself a priceless possession that has been on loan . . . for it is the other Commonwealth countries which have a right to ask of Britain today that we should not overwork their Queen...