Word: auctioned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Verlaine, Maurice Maeterlinck and Charles Morice wrote special plays; Stéphane Mallarmé recited Poe's Raven in French. By the time the scenery was paid for there was just enough money left to buy Poet Verlaine 30 drinks of absinthe. Painter Gauguin sold his pictures at auction, went to Tahiti anyway...
...well-dressed plumpish man, who bore a striking resemblance to France's late, great King Louis XVI, was a determined auction bidder in Paris last week for a dull, tarnished guillotine blade said to have cut off the head of His late Majesty. Up went bids from 2,000 francs ($135) until everyone dropped out but the plumpish unknown and that well-known collector of French Revolution mementoes, M. Charles Lievre. In a final spurt to 12,500 francs ($835), the blade went to M. Lievre, along with documents certifying that until 1893 it had remained in the executioner...
...sells condensed and evaporated milk under the slogan "Milk from Contented Cows." The 1,500-acre experimental Carnation Farms are conducted in the interest of dairying in general, for all of the milk to be canned is bought from other farms. Farmers improve their herds by buying stock at auction from the Farms. Milk from Daisy and the other contented cows on the Carnation Farms is sold raw in Seattle...
...Angeles, other U. S. fur-trading centres, journeyed last week some 70 fur buyers. At Hamburg, 20 miles from Wausau, is the 12,000-acre silver fox ranch of Fromm Bros., world's largest breeders of bright silver foxes. There last fortnight blond blue-eyed Edward Fromm auctioned off more than 7,500 silver fox pelts for some $540,000. Buyers, fur-capped and ear-muffed, enjoyed their junket. From the Hotel Wausau they took busses to the Hamburg ranch, found free drinks and bowling alleys, Wisconsin maidens serving kosher meats at the ranch clubhouse. Proceeds of the first...
...himself in the warehouse. U. S.-born of German parentage, the brothers still speak German in the family circle. President Edward makes monthly trips to New York. The walls of his office are covered with family portraits and photostats of certified checks (largest, $1,300,000 from New York Auction Co. in 1929). On the dashboard of his Lincoln is a radio remote-control gadget which opens & closes his garage door and turns the lights in the garage on & off. None of the brothers smoke or drink. Each takes only $5,000 a year out of the business as salary...