Word: auction
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...flivver that has never (under the guidance of its present owner, at least) rattled on any highway beyond walking distance of Cambridge, will find itself drawn into the stream of vehicles headed westward on the fourth of November. Some of us will reserve our favorite Boston taxi, and auction off cubic feet of space in it to the highest bidder as long as there is space left. Others have already ordered our town cars to be boxed up and shipped from Chicago, Philadelphia or New York before the freight trains stop running. . . . But we'll be there...
...made a sound choice in awarding the prize to E. A. Weeks, '22, for his story entitled "Ink", which appears in the current issue of the magazine. "Ink" is a slight story. Its heroine, a girl who "has assuredly passed the dancing debutante years" and is approaching "the gardening, auction, book-club age of thirty," receives a love letter and a piece of Bokhara embroidery from a somewhat sentimental young man in India whom she has kept dangling for years in a state of miserable uncertainty. Her niece, who is a flapper, spills a bottle of ink on the Bokhara...
...signed by twenty-five or thirty of the inhabitants of Concord at that time. It represents one of the first attemps to raise money for the support of the College--a true predecessor of the Endowment Campaign of the present day. When it was put up at auction at a recent Harvard dinner in New York, it brought in $2000 to the present Endowment Fund...
...fact that a bribe had to be offered; it is the fact that the Union leaders took if, that is to be deploved. For by doing so, they have lifted strikes and their settlement out of the realms of equity, and have brought the whole question down to the auction block. In other words, it is not fair and just treatment that they are campaigning for, but the almighty dollar; and they evidently do not intend to discriminate as to their methods of obtaining...
...action by Great Britain today is misinterpreted by Hearst to suit his own ends. A dinner at which Viscount Grey and Herbert Hoover were alleged to have been present was pointed out as an example of the interference of England in American politics. The proposed auction of the interned German liners afforded a convenient pretext for illustrating how America was attempting to sacrifice her ships to swell the British naval reserve. Each of the situations alleged to exist have been shown to be entirely fictitious. On the ethical principle that an implied lie is no less a lie than...