Word: priceless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...speeches, no controversial pronouncements, but enough pleasant appearances to make himself seen and heard as a wit, raconteur and friend of all Democrats. Such Barkley-style backslapping and storytelling will not get him to Chicago with many delegates in his pocket. But they are part of a priceless asset: he is the Democratic Party's best-loved leader...
...musicians from the U.S. and Free Europe for a month-long festival in celebration of human freedom. The idea behind the festival, billed as "Masterpieces of the 20th Century": to show some of the good things produced in the past 50 years "by independent creators, exercising the priceless gifts of freedom and self-expression." The U.S. will be represented by the Boston Symphony and the New York City Ballet, by the music of such native American composers as Samuel Barber, Aaron Copland, Charles Ives, Walter Piston and Virgil Thomson and of such adopted Americans as Igor Stravinsky and Paul Hindemith...
...look got an eyeful. There were papers signed by England's Queen Elizabeth I and Kings Henry VII and Henry VIII; a complete set of autographs of America's Founding Fathers (estimated value: $50,000), including the rarest of all, Georgia's Button Gwinnett; a priceless law journal kept by Connecticut's Governor Jonathan Trumbull from 1715 to 1747; the full minutes of the town meetings of Guilford, Conn, from 1665 to 1701; and most of the original tracts and sermons of Cotton and Increase Mather...
...above all by the way he convinces those who hear him that he is pouring out his whole mind, a plain man saying what he thinks. Not even Roosevelt had this ability in the degree Truman has it. Well the 6,000 have known (since 1948) what a priceless political asset...
Agent Gillis was no expert at first, but he became one by talking to book dealers and poring through Peking's Metropolitan Library. He managed to find one of the three existing complete sets (5,020 volumes) of the 1728 Chinese Encyclopedia. He also sent home a priceless rubbing from the stone text of a Confucian doctrine dated 745 A.D., with a commentary by the Emperor Hsiüan-Tsung; a Tibetan book written in pure gold; a 600 A.D. scroll found in the caves of northwest China with the original hemp wrapper signed by the woman who wove...