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Word: priceless (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nobody loves Hammer more than a Windsor butcher who has grown fat on selling the studio his offal: lamb tongues, entrails, eyeballs. Such "authentic art" is a priceless asset to Hammer, which also fills theater lobbies with promotional displays of headless bodies floating in tanks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MOVIES ABROAD: Gold from Ghouls | 4/6/1959 | See Source »

...Ambassador to Brazil, she will succeed able Career Diplomat Ellis O. Briggs, 59. Only foreign diplomat to visit every one of vast Brazil's 25 states and territories, polished, amiable Old Latin America Hand Briggs built up a priceless fund of good will for the U.S. during his 2½ years in Brazil. Judged by her performance in Italy, Clare Luce can be depended on to add to the fund...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Ambassador to Brazil | 3/2/1959 | See Source »

Fashionable Roman Sculptor Renato Signorini said that he had accepted a gilt-edged commission from Monaco's Prince Rainier: an 18-carat solid-gold bust of Princess Grace. Buckling down to three months of "very patient work," Signorini grandly measured the value of his work-to-be: "Priceless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 16, 1959 | 2/16/1959 | See Source »

Tied to a balloon or bobbing down a canal in a bottle, the little magazine slips each month into Communist East Germany from the Western zone of Berlin. The cover of the contraband Tarantel (tarantula) proclaims that it is "priceless," but for East Germans caught chuckling over the magazine's sledgehammer humor, the price can be a term in a Red prison. Despite its problems of distribution and retribution, Tarantel is a big success among East Germans. Reason: the butt of humor for Tarantel is East Germany's Communist government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Armed with a Snicker | 1/12/1959 | See Source »

Goyas & Gielgud. Washington's most lavish diplomatic entertainments are given by Spain's Ambassador José Marie M. de Areilza, Count of Motrico, and his wife, who live in one of the capital's most breathtaking houses (white-walled ballroom, priceless tapestries, bubbling fountain). The Spaniards are hosts at huge New Year's Eve balls, an annual Columbus Day party (1,000 guests) and spring Verbena (carnival), bring in flamenco dancers who whirl to the clapping of the guests (including the ambassador, sitting on the floor). For perfectly detailed dinners and suppers, nobody surpasses Peru...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CAPITAL: Party Line | 12/29/1958 | See Source »

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