Word: auction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...India Bill, merely hope to obtain amendments more favorable to their rights as potentates. Snorted British Elder Statesman Sir Austen Chamberlain: "Let it be understood that we are not willing to allow this House to be driven from what they think right or to enter into a Dutch auction for the support of the princes...
...hundred and fifty-eight dollars was all that the French Government realized from an auction of the personal belongings of the late Great Swindler Alexandre Serge Stavisky, against whose estate lie claims...
...Washington society it was an occasion, to His Excellency Mehmet Munir Bey, Ambassador of the Turkish Republic,, it was an opportunity. Last week, the pictures and knick knacks of Mrs. John Brooks Henderson's bulbous brownstone castle on 16th Street went on the auction block...
...hills, while Sir Hudson fumed in Jamestown. Both parties kept up a constant barrage of verbal and written insults, orders, recriminations, complaints. In order to annoy Sir Hudson and make it appear that he was being starved, Napoleon had some of his silver plate sold at public auction; Sir Hudson got back at him by searching the Longwood laundry for smuggled letters...
From all over Britain they came, dealers, collectors, scientists, tweedy oölogists, pale studious curates. On the auctioneer's pulpit were bids from all over the world, for here was an occasion that might not come again in a lifetime. Six Great Auk eggs, all wrapped in cotton wool and lying in little boxes, and two stuffed Great Auk skins went on sale last week in Stevens auction rooms in London. They fetched a total...