Word: auctioner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...three years. For the first time in history, the Office had felt obliged to rid itself of its vast accumulation of working models. Some 50,000 designs patented prior to 1880 were turned over to museums; sime 2,500 were returned to heirs; several thousand were sold at public auction...
...James Matthew Barrie, anatomist of sentiment: " 'I have lost the use of my right hand,' I announced, in sending to a charity auction the MS. of my play The Old Lady Shows Her Medals. 'At the completion of that play my right hand (probably frightened at the sight of my calligraph) gave out,' said I, 'and I have ever since had to write with my left.' The MS., which fetched $1,025, was auctioned by Major Hon. John Jacob Astor, Chairman of the London Times Publishing Company; and William Harrison, who has been buying...
...Sidney S. Lenz, they say, who brought auction bridge to the Western world. Originally a box-manufacturer in Michigan, he had tried all indoor sports and wearied of them through sheer dexterity. He had bowled and become a champion. The ping and pong of pingpong, in all their manifold trajectories, were so simple to his touch that it became a bore for him to play with most people, unless he had a book to read at the same time. His bureau drawers were cluttered with medals for billiards, his shelves with cups for golf. He went off around the world...
...stock was seized under the Trading with the Enemy Act passed in 1917, which provided that the President should appoint an Alien Property Custodian to hold property in this country owned by citizens of enemy countries. Likewise the Custodian was empowered to sell any of this property at public auction, and the proceeds from sale of the metal stock reached some...
...United States Lines and the American Merchant Lines are definitely going on the auction block, all together...