Word: auctioned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...best-seller of the '90s (The Sorrows of Satan), was so sure of her literary immortality that she willed that her Stratford-on-Avon estate be preserved as a shrine-"the home of a great English novelist." Preparations were begun last week, 19 years after her death, to auction the place off because royalties from the Corelli books have not been enough to maintain it. With it goes a genuine gondola which she imported (with a gondolier) from Venice...
Hearts & Showers. In Falls City, Neb., nine-year-old Jimmy Shafer rode his pony into an auction ring, started weeping as the bidding rose, wept increasingly, set the bidders blubbering, finally caused the auctioneer to sob out: "I just can't do it." The sale was called...
Best scene was probably that of the slave auction. In other jungle scenes unrealistic lighting detracted from the net effect. In general, however, the play was very good. A short production by itself, the entire effect was lengthened by the addition of an uncalled for pre-curtain nightmare. Its elimination is the most outstanding improvement which night be suggested...
Edgar Bergen bought himself a two-cell jail with running water and electric lights. For a $10,000 war bond bid at a Hollywood auction, he acquired the pint-size pokey from a young man who had got it by error for $1.50 at a tax sale (TIME, July 12). Bergen did not say what he was going to do with his plum, which lies in Harvard...
...Army, waving aside all advice, had stubbornly insisted on buying the Stevens. Cost: $6,000,000 (its original cost in 1927: $28,000,000). Then, in a fabulous five-day sale, the Army had auctioned off almost all the internal fixings of the Stevens-pots, pans, bowling alleys, beds, linen and spittoons (TIME, March 29). Realized from the sale: almost $600,000 (replacement value: over $2,000,000). The auction came just 90 days before the Army decided to sell the Stevens. Yet for only $3,000 a month in storage charges the Army could have held...