Word: auctioner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...solaces the nameless artist for years of neglect. Just why it should be believed remains a mystery, for all too often the evidence points to its converse. Artificial flowers last longest." Thus, some years ago, wrote a critic. Last week his view was given singular proof in a London auction room. The scene was Christie's. An elegant company, in satins and swallowtails, lounged before the auctioneer's rostrum, watching some gentlemen talk with their fingers. They talked in an ancient language, for they were dealer's agents, and their nodding heads, their twitching forefingers, indicated bids...
...GREAT GOD BROWN-Eugene O'Neill's searching and occasionally confusing study of brains on the auction block...
...since known as Comus. This masque so casually written to order, printed in 1637 without even the author's name, is one of the loveliest poems written in English and perhaps the best of Milton's minor works. Valued little at printing, its first (1637) edition last week at auction in Manhattan brought $21,500. Book Agent Dr. A. S. W. Rosenbach, always quietly stubborn in bidding for a book he wants...
...Butte the arrival of the strangers?financiers, lawyers, rail-roaders?will prepare for the opening of perhaps the greatest auction sale in history, the knocking down, under the hammer of a U. S. special master, of the $750,000,000 St. Paul system, the system which stretches from a network of roads anastomosing over Wisconsin, Iowa, North and South Dakota, Michigan, Minnesota, and Illinois, then in a thin line over Montana, Idaho and Washington to Puget Sound?11,000 miles of trackage...
Last week the judge finally ordered both. The place of auction will be the main entrance of the Butte railroad station. The time he will set much later, waiting with courtesy to the I. C. C. until it completes its investigations...