Word: auctioned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wanted any further evidence of this degeneration we can find it in the despair that leads to auction sales and in the abandonment of farms. We can find it in the undue killing of dairy cattle. We can find it in the shops without supplies for the housewife for days at a time. We can find it in local famines of meat or butter or potatoes or something else. We can find it in the epidemic of black markets all over the country...
...elegant life when, as a boy, he watched his father's daily ritual in preparing punch from Medford Rum.* He started out at the Murray Hill as assistant night clerk, soon rose to manager. He saved his money, increased it by speculation. When the hotel went on the auction block, he held a mortgage on all the furnishings, became the natural and successful bidder. Ben Bates had one firm resolution: the Murray Hill must not change. He would not permit sandblasting of its dirtied outer walls: every brick was washed by hand. He spent half a million for renovations...
...well-publicized bender in Manhattan. (He once posed for photographers standing on his head outside the Metropolitan Opera House-TIME, Dec. 11, 1939.) On plushy upper Fifth Avenue, he followed up a street-corner conga by soundly bussing a couple of female passersby, then plunged into the Plaza Art Auction Galleries, where he encountered a statuesque beauty (an armless Venus) and struck up a conversation with her. Repairing briefly to the Sherry-Netherland bar, he emerged, gathered another crowd by bawling the headlines of a newspaper, spied a pretty girl, promptly proposed, was promptly turned down. When the police arrived...
Glib, wild-haired Musicomedian Danny Kaye, working like a turkey gobbler, held up the auction's prize piece. It was not precious. It was a curio: Comic Jack Benny's violin, "Old Love In Bloom"-a $75 imitation Amati. Everyone present knew that only a war could have persuaded Benny to part with the old prop which had provided him with half his gags for the last 20 years. Before anyone could make a bid an attendant rushed up to Auctioneer Kaye with a letter. He opened it and gulped: "I have...
...with Sears, Roebuck for half a century, have long been generous supporters of the university. Onetime Chairman Julius Rosenwald was responsible for Sears's acquisition of the Britannica in 1920, when it was in such bad financial straits that its priceless plates were about to be sold at auction. What made the deal especially interesting was what Bob Hutchins did not tell about...