Word: auctioneers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great gnarled auction block from which men and women are still annually knocked down stands in the market place of the ancient city of St. Etienne...
...them a game that later was to become known as Bridge Whist. That afternoon, as far as anyone can accurately tell, was the birthday of a card game which spans the civilized world, which later developed and fastened itself more firmly on the white man's leisure as Auction Bridge; and now promises to take another step and monopolize card tables as Contract Bridge...
...game based on exposing one of the four hands and bidding for it. The man who estimated he could make the most tricks with his hand playing in combination with the exposed hand took the bid. There were, of course, heavy penalties, for overestimation. From this crude start grew Auction Bridge, which is still the most widely played of all. In its present form all four of the players, beginning with the dealer, have a chance to bid (though no hand is at first exposed). Bidding laws, convention and shrewdness enable a potent partnership to give each other the maximum...
...congregation of Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, saw Pastor Henry Ward Beecher* mount the pulpit, accompanied by a trembling nine-year-old Negress. Then, while many a woman became hysterical, while many a man shed tears, famed Abolitionist Beecher turned his pulpit into a slave-pen, his sermon into an auctioneer's harangue, asked his hearers to bid $900 for this fine piece of colored flesh- Sally Maria Diggs, commonly known as "Pinky." Last week the congregation of Plymouth Church saw its present pastor share his pulpit with a Negress. They heard him recall that far off day when the North...
...most valuable set of proofs in the collection is that of "Kim," by Kipling. This set would bring several thousand dollars at auction. Lewis Carroll's correaction of his "Phantasmagoria," one of the recently acquired Carroll collection, is also on show, as is the proof of "Confessions of a Unionist," by Stevenson. This work, which deals with the Irish question, was originally set up for Scribner's Magazine, but as they did not dare to publish it for fear of causing trouble, it was not actually brought out until recently...