Word: auctioned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...make a stand - in Belgium, at the Somme, at Dunkirk - but the juggernaut kept rolling, rolling, rolling. They chalked up 21 points in the first quarter, seven in the second. Radio fans, tuning in at half time, thought they were listening to a basketball game - or an Atlantic City auction. By sixes and sevens, the score jumped: "35, 41, 47, no 48, 54." Those who actually saw the game were even more dumfounded. With Sid Luckman, onetime Columbia star, calling the plays with the genius of a clairvoyant, the Bears were a perfect football machine...
...lunacy, it is not quite so close as a weird audience-participation show (as yet unsponsored) called You Sell Me, which floated out from Chicago's WBBM a month ago. Presided over by ebullient, moon-faced Tommie Bartlett (TIME, July 1), You Sell Me is a kind of auction at which anything from a kiss to a shirt is purchased from spectators. Wandering around a WBBM studio with a portable mike, Bartlett haggles over shirts, stockings with holes in them, 1921 nickels. Usual price for such items...
Among 300-odd miners, farmers and hunters who gathered before the auction block were many on WPA or relief, some who had come to buy the homes in which they lived. Mrs. Mary Zuzak, hefty, straggly-haired wife of a man who had worked in the Pattontown mines (closed in 1938), planked down $350 in cash for a house she had lived in since the town was built (1919). Others found themselves dispossessed. Including the Mercantile Building, which brought $1,600, parceled Pattontown was sold for about...
...months he claimed, but for the entire period of nearly eleven months from the day he was hired until election day. Furthermore, in order that Frank Gibler might really be paid, the Board last week ordered the estate with all its recreations to be put on the auction block-which in this case was also an execution block. If the cause of Juan Andreu Almazan was dead, it was partly because Mexico has developed very legal means for political assassination...
...Baer, to $1,900 Lady Sydenham. Then the professionals boosted it to $2,100, but gave up the struggle when Manhattan Furrier I. J. Fox offered $2,200. Graciously refusing to accept the platina fox, Dealer Fox suggested that it be given to the American Red Cross to auction again, stayed after the show to present his check for $2,200 to the four Norwegians...