Word: bidding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Drabness. Even those who had no hope of getting a bid to the wedding were busily concerned over it. A correspondent to the Times fretted over the uniforms of the Household Cavalry chosen to escort the bride. "May we hope," he wrote, "to see the Guards again in scarlet and bearskins, and our hearts be rejoiced by the beginning of the end, not of austerity which we must endure, but of drabness...
...Feinberg's superb play at guard drew a "finest game since Chub Peabody" rating from the coach and a strong bid to start Saturday. Emil Drvaric was also impressive against Dartmouth. These two guards together may have prevented a third touchdown for the Indians...
...story is set in the early 1760s. Miss Goddard, an English girl, is accused -unjustly, of course-of crime, and is sentenced to 14 years' slavery in North America. The highest bid comes from Captain Cooper of the Virginia militia. A scoundrel, Howard DaSilva, tricks Cooper out of his new property. The picture thereupon settles down in and near Fort Pitt, which every schoolboy will presumably recognize as early Pittsburgh...
...series was perfectly timed. It broke the day before news of the Comintern's revival, with the result that more than 25 other top U.S. newspapers promptly signed up the series. (Nine book publishers also bid for it.) The eleven articles would take few prizes for good writing, but their unemotional factualism and scope made them an impressive job of reporting. With some of their startling conclusions, many a reader would probably take issue-even though they were backed by the conservative Trib...
half. has been out of action for the first two contests because of a bad charley horse. The team's leading scorer in '45 and '46, he was making a great bid for starting left half until injured. He is one of the team's best passers and is the most dangerous breakaway runners on the Virginia squad...