Word: auction
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Blakelock, self-taught, had spent most of his life fanatically painting bigger, better landscapes, and trying to support his family in the slum-infested fringes of Manhattan by peddling the pictures to framers, Third Avenue junk dealers, and auction houses for a few dollars apiece. Intermittently, his work was exhibited at the National Academy; but conventional critics of the 1870s and '80s did not like the misty, moody landscapes-empty of human life-which Blakelock did best. Storytelling in painting was the fashion...
...spite of the success of the first day's auction, there is still a quantity of goods left which will go on sale today...
...Shafter," an early vintage Chevrolet owned by five Whitman Hall residents, will join girls' clothes of an unspecified variety in an auction sponsored by Radditudes in the Radcliffe Yard tomorrow at noon...
...left home (NBC) in 1942, it had nothing to wear but castoffs-speeches, discussions, classical music-from its flashy big sister, NBC's Red Network. When NBC got rid of the Blue (by request of the Federal Communications Commission), Woods became its first president. His first job: to auction off "the dullest, speechingest network you ever heard," a 116-station property that brought in a slim $14 million in 1942. It took Mark a year and a half to find a buyer...
...late Thomas A. Edison, in a penciled memo sold at auction for $230 last week in Philadelphia: "As to the atom, I do not believe it has any internal energy as claimed. Everyone else believes...