Word: auction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...auction in Manhattan of the library of the late antiquarian Rev. Dr. Roderick Terry, Bookdealer Gabriel Wells paid $9,750 for a First Folio edition of Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories & Tragedies...
...auction in Paris last week came a rusty, mildewed guillotine certified to have cut off more than 1,000 aristocratic heads during the French Revolution. After brisk bidding it was knocked down for 30,000 francs ($1,980) to a buyer who refused to give his name. Reporters thought they recognized the owner of a brothel which boasts that its "torture room" is the most authentically equipped in Paris...
...land. Sales ranged as high as $24,000,000 a year, profits as high as $1,200,000. Then early in 1933 McLellan Stores went to the wall because the banks would not renew its loans. By last spring, when it was time to put McLellan Stores on the auction block, it was evident that the chainstore was still a moneymaker...
...which Mr. Long paid $207,763.57. There were Oriental rugs in every bathroom. House and contents were listed on his personal ledger as an $11 asset. Last week more than 1,000 Kansas Citizens gratified a long-cherished ambition to see the inside of the Long house. Up for auction was everything Lumberman Long possessed except the sets of Dickens, Eliot and Bulwer-Lytton which lined the walls of the little oak room where he read the Bible every morning and to which was brought his 10 o'clock glass of milk. While Auctioneer William Henry Jones grew hoarse...
...inferior to most recent Hollywood musicomedies, its narrative method stodgy, but are likely to approve the decor, Frederic Norton's music, the acting of the only performer in the cast whose name is familiar to them. Anna May Wong wriggles her eyebrows ably when placed on the slave auction-block, writhes in splendid style when compelled to turn the winch that opens the door of the robbers' cave...