Word: auctioned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...teens, "quaking with fear and shaking like an aspen," Belle da Costa Greene began her career as head of the Pierpont Morgan Library. She was not to quake or shake for long. In time she became famous in her own field. The sight of her great plumed hats among auction bidders was enough to send auctioneers into a tizzy. Dealers learned to jump at her summons, and the news of one of her purchases for the Morgan Library could rock the whole book world. It was Belle who turned Morgan's first haphazard collection of treasures into...
...millions Midwest utilitycoon of the '20s, were cluttering up the basement of a La Salle Street office building, a Chicago judge ordered the old bonds, canceled debentures, stock certificates, vouchers, receipts, and canceled checks (about 50,000 papers weighing three tons) sold as scrap paper at public auction. Estimated scrap value...
While they waited for the little czar to arrive, nine headliners from the Metropolitan Opera House were marking time in Victor's Studio One (formerly a horse auction barn). Some of them clustered at the piano and timidly tried out the unfamiliar words of the oldtime fox-trot I'm Just Wild About Harry. The 11½-month-old recording ban was over (see BUSINESS), and RCA Victor publicity men had chosen as Victor's first record a Christmas message for Harry Truman...
...gloom deepened as the fur auction season started last week in Manhattan. Even in the rarer types (e.g., Silverblumink) only half the pelts offered were sold; in the top quality dark ranch mink, prices were off 30 to 50% from last year...
...Shannon down to three or four select races a year. Riddle became so fond of him that he turned down offer after offer for the horse. Last year, after Peter Riddle's death, all Australia listened in by radio as Shannon was once again led into the auction ring...