Word: biddings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Publisher Boni offered $35,000, and again the deal was made-but not signed. Clemenceau said he must notify the other bidder which was, he said, the New York Times. He agreed to give Publisher Boni a chance to match any higher bid...
...which they became partners in U. S. Industry. Now they were trying to get rid of them even more frantically than they had tried to get them. Stocks bought without reference to their earnings were being sold without reference to their dividends. At around noon there came the no-bid menace. Even in a panic-market, someone must buy the "dumped" shares, but stocks were dropping from 2 to 10 points between sales-losing from 2 to 10 points before a buyer could be found for them. Sound stocks at shrunk prices-and nobody to buy them. It looked...
...Kansas City, Mo.. Charles M. Hofman and his wife called upon Mr. and Mrs. John G. Bennett, played argumentative bridge. Toward the end of the game Mr. Bennett bid a spade, Mrs. Bennett raised him to four spades, showed a "rather good hand." When he failed to make the bid. Mrs. Bennett called her husband a "bum bridge player," whereupon he leaned across the table, slapped her face. She excused herself from the room, rummaged in a trunk for a revolver, returned and shot him dead...
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...standard social card-game, did not attend Whitehead's convention. He, Harold Stirling Vanderbilt, one of the best bridge-players in the world, has written a book † on Bridge and brought a new word into the language, "vanderbilting." Briefly, and in popular terms, you vanderbilt when you bid one club as an indication that you have three quick tricks in your hand. Though the club bid indicates the three tricks, to bid it you do not need any clubs. It is merely informative. Presupposing no bid from the opponent on your left, your partner then must bid...