Word: priceless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Priceless Possession. As the royal yacht moved closer to shore at the river's mouth, the Queen was more plainly discernible. Like perhaps a thousand or more other mothers on the shore at that precise moment, she was firmly gripping the coat collar of her squirming son to keep him from leaning too perilously over the rail. The cheers that rose at the sight of her familiar, youthful, dignified figure on the Britannia's deck were tinged with relief and thanksgiving. It is part of the family feeling that characterizes the British attitude toward its monarchy that...
...tapestried halls of Cairo's Kubbeh Palace last week, sounding the end of one of the most expensive and generally useless collections of gimcrackery ever assembled. Like a royal pack rat, ex-King Farouk had cached everything he could beg, buy and demand-tiny telescopes with diamond sprays, priceless relics of Pharaonic culture, a 100blade knife, an outstanding coin collection, a Nazi marshal's gaudy baton. Egypt's revolutionary regime was putting all of it-treasure and trash-on the block in a six-week sale. It was the biggest mass merchandising of such bric-a-brac...
...annual battle of fakes and frauds raged on in continental art galleries, the critics themselves became slightly embarrassed when an investigating commission reported that one of the world's most famous and priceless paintings, "The Ghent Altarpiece" by Jan Van Eyck, was not what it seemed to be on the surface. Paul Coremans, director of the Laboratoire Central des Musees de Belgique, said that many of the exquisite features of the painting which everyone had admired as the genius of Van Eyck were really the handiwork of some later dabbler who had painted over Van Eyck's work...
Another baby came last year, and the strain grew too much. The Ramies moved out, and last week their priceless rooms were empty except for the Picassos on the walls. But Jean still pays the rent for his old home. He thinks it is a nice place to visit...
...Indo-China are incompatible goals. A perilous drain of French resources has been the main result of prolonged warfare. Yet if the French withdraw their troops "because the natives have asked for independence and have not thrown their full effort into the war" they will deed the Communists a priceless chunk of real-estate, and endanger every free country in the Far East...