Word: auction
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ames interprets the role of a crook who will inherit an immoderate amount of millions if he becomes for one year the pastor of a village church. After introducing to his astonished flock golf, jazz and auction bridge, after falling in love with the inevitable sweet and simple maiden, he reforms...
There was a political auction, as advertised by sandwich men before dinner in the reception room. "The greatest collection of electoral remnants in history" was offered by a hoarse man in swallow-tailed grandeur and a sagging red waistcoat. "The proceeds . . . will be used for charity. They will be donated to the Democratic National Committee...
...issue into the contest. He published a plan for tax reduction?not simply an idea, but a plan worked out in all its details (TIME, Nov. 19 et seq.). Tax reduction was the one suit which politicians had not expected to play. They were as startled as auction bridge players hearing a bid of nullo. What surprised them at first was the avidity with which the public took to the notion of tax reduction. The Congressmen, who were at first noncommittally opposed, soon turned lukewarm, later...
...Kent '25, captain of the University Polo Team last year, has recently purchased one of the many polo ponies of the Prince of Wales. This horse, the mare "Kitty", was one of the best of the ponies belonging to the Prince, and was purchased at the auction of the British polo ponies held recently, after the International polo matches were finished. Kent will use the fast mare as one of his regular ponies...
Paris was thrilled by the sale at forced auction for 100 sous ($1.00) of the embalmed head of Henry IV of France. Newspapers and correspondents staged a bitter fight. Some said it could not possibly be the King's head; others thought to the contrary...