Word: auctioner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...feminine equivalent of bluff gives a distinctively piquant flavor to penny ante. Few strong men holding good hands can resist the appeal of a womanly raise when deuces are wild. Small wonder therefore that British auction players fear for the future of their game. Once more, London Bridge is falling down...
...coat began to recite a chant, while his listeners turned around and smiled at one another, signaled and whispered, some even rising from their chairs to shout aloud. They were, in person or by proxy, the 700 millionaires who had been invited to come to this drawing room (the auction booth of the Anderson Galleries, Manhattan) to bid for the first items of the collection left by the late Viscount Leverhulme, the manufacturer of Lifebuoy Soap...
...Weeks illustrated this point by an instance which occurred while he was in the Argentine capital. "While I was there," he declared, "a bull was sold at auction for $66,000, which I think is the largest price ever paid for such an animal." He said that it was not for a bull fight, as we would commonly suppose...
...Foster is a unique character. Almost what Hoyle* was to the 18th century, Mr. Foster is to the 20th (particularly within the radius of Manhattan newspapers). He was 40 years old when he became "card editor of the New York Sun. Soon famed as authority on auction bridge, his production of literature on cards within the last 20 years has been enormous. The "rule of eleven owes its origin to him. Men by the thousand and women by the ten thousand have applied themselves to study of his works with an intensity which would have created a race of theologians...
Three years ago he set up an auction block and knocked down jobless men to such "bidders" as would offer them employment. Last winter he marched crowds of hoboes into Manhattan churches, alleging that they could find no other shelter, but was eventually restrained from such actions by the police...