Word: auctioned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During supper a man's face appeared at a screened porthole of the Wanderwell schooner Carma, onetime rumrunner bought at Government auction. The stranger asked: "Where is Captain Wanderwell...
Three days later Grand Champion Texas Special was put on the auction block, in dispirited bidding was sold to Pfaelzer Packing Co. for $1,676.25-$1.25 a lb., lowest price since 1923 when Broadus White Socks brought but 60? a lb.* Before being cut up, Texas Special was taken to Pittsburgh, exhibited some more...
...family's fortunes, has been forced to capitalize his good manners in the ignoble profession of gigolo. Maritza is the pretty daughter of a wealthy businessman who admires the count but despises his calling. When a fat U. S. widow (Mary Boland) buys the von Degenthal castle at an auction and plans to modernize it into an apartment hotel with the count for manager and his valet (Charles Ruggles) for maitre d'hotel, the inevitable alliance between Marshall and Maritza develops without further impediment. Typical shot: Maritza peeping out behind a curtain while Marshall superciliously accepts a stogie from...
...intimates though she was always extremely generous to charities. Last February she died, leaving ample bequests to her brothers & sisters and a dozen institutions, and the pick of her father's armor collection to the Metropolitan Museum. To settle the residue of the estate, one auction of furniture and household effects was held at Elmhurst last spring. There was still enough left to keep auctioneers busy for six days last week. All Miss Giulia's jewelry was sold with the rest. Besides her famed four-strand pearl necklace and her 25-carat Ceylon sapphire there...
Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes showed a copy of his six-volume Iconography of Manhattan Island, a most elaborately illustrated history of New York that usually brings from $1,000 to $1,500 at auction and is known all over the world...