Word: bidding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sends him away humming. In addition there are the Goldwyn Girls; Vera Zorina in a number of first-rate ballet offerings; the Ritz Brothers running hot and cold through a dozen harebrained interludes; and Phil Baker with accordion and gags. There is little doubt who makes the ranking bid to steal the show: Bergen and McCarthy at their first-flush-of-fame best sparring with Baker and more delightfully with Bobby Clark. Even the W. C. Fields routine with McCarthy pales next to Clark's classic buffoonery. Each wheeze is on hand--"you fugitive from a picket fence," "you animated...
Short of a GOP presidential convention or a nonagonal track meet, the biggest three-ring spectacle of the moment is now playing at the Boston Garden. With a penchant for extravagance matched only by the verbosity of the publicity men, John Ringling North and assistants have made their bold bid to recoup the loss of the 1944 Hartford fire, and if mere bustle and flourish are any criterion of success, they've hit the tin can squarely with the bottle. Twenty-two Sensational Displays Where Daredeviltry Beggars Description, a Mammoth Menagerie and a Block-Busting Convention of 115 Cavorting Clowns...
...actually on a mission that not even his staffers knew about: he had come to tell prospective U.S. bidders that Churchill had changed his mind. Camrose himself has the Empire rights to the memoirs. He parried all U.S. offers until LIFE and the Times surprised him with a joint bid (both reasoned that the overlap in their circulations is negligible). Camrose went home with a two-page letter of agreement, one of many documents covering publication of the memoirs all over the world. Before all hands initialed it, the U.S. contract had grown to eleven pages and the complexity...
Having flown many thousand miles in Air Transport Command-managed lines, where "customers" were nonpaying, yet courteously treated, my introduction to [a] commercial airline's bid for traffic was a rude awakening...
Although the start was just about even, Navy, out rowed by Yale the Saturday before, swept to a lead in the first quarter of a mile and held it as the Crimson made its bid near the mile and a quarter mark. The Middies had only a six-foot advantage going into the last quarter mile where the Crimson Varsity went to 40 beats a minute...