Word: auctioner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...owner* of this countenance has for some time been leading a life of considerable luxury, but it was in no way responsible for the melancholy that saddened his visage. His regret was caused by the fact that his father and mother were at that moment being sold at auction in a meadow three miles away. No one was so heartless as to describe that scene to him: the 3,000-odd onlookers, bidders, the group of old stallions, sway-backed mares, shaggy, spindling colts-remnants of the famed stable of the late August Belmont, being sold by a red-faced...
...perhaps you have a set of Shakespeare, or have read him, or don't like him anyhow? The all-seeing publishers have thought of that. No matter! They are prepared to throw in at the same price a copy of Omar Khayyam, or "Auction Bridge for Beginners", or that amazing treasure-house, "Mrs. Doe's Famous Cook Book...
...also announced, unofficially, that several hundred workers' houses in the model village of Shawseen, Mass., would be sold at auction...
...Westinghouse Airbrake Co.'s plant at Yaroslave was put up for auction to defray a Government rent claim of $125,000. There were no bidders, so the Government took the factory over for operation...
...buyer, Mark Raffalsky, was in turn a subject of commiseration until it was learned that, after holding the property only a month, he in turn sold it at auction for $1,409,378.60-or an advance of about...