Word: auction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...told a New Bedford newsgatherer what happened to her after the Coolidges came into her life. She was "a marked woman . . . shaken and wretched." Returning to The Beeches from her first conference with Mr. Coolidge, she found 18 photographers on the grounds taking pictures. Because she feared a public auction would attract swarms of souvenir-seekers she had to sell $5,000 worth of furniture to the Coolidges (who did not particularly want it) for a trifling sum. The telephone rang constantly (60 calls one hour) ; she had to have two policemen come to prevent curiosity peepers from stampeding...
...announcement that Beck Hall is to be sold at auction brings up a line of memories and traditions that are unmistakably associated with Harvard. It means that one of the most colorful buildings of a most colorful epoch must make way for newer developments. But aside from this sentimental attitude that forgets all of the bad plumbing, and the creaking floors, there is a very palpable point which should not be overlooked. With this new sale about to be negotiated, the question is, what is the attitude of the University going...
...newspapers. A whole chapter is devoted to a discussion of that much overrated firm of Currier & lves. From the thousands of different subjects the author weeds out a few that have some real merit and justly decries the present fancy for "Little Ellen"s and the "Darktown" series. The auction prices which be quotes for some of them are truly astonishing...
...although a very young man-of God. He stayed in Pittsburgh for over 40 years- until 1870. He became a root of the growing town, both as a preacher and landowner. He shrewdly bought up land in East Liberty and subdivided it and sold the lots at auction. I have two of these early real estate plats showing the land owned by "the Rev. William Brown McIlvaine." He knew the Mellon family from the first, perhaps his closest friends being the old Judge and his wife. A daughter Sophia married into the Negley family, a member of whom you identify...
...prouder still. He was able to announce that, thanks to his own astute connoisseurship, his Detroit Institute of Art had acquired a genuine Titian, the golden, mellow portrait of a Venetian Doge. For this masterpiece, which he valued at $150,000, Director Valentiner had paid only $400, at an auction of part of Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum's great Havemeyer Collection (TIME, March 24). It had been labeled "School of Titian," but Director Valentiner, observing the sensitively rendered fingers of the Doge's hand upon his sword hilt, gambled $400 and had an expert scrape off layers...