Word: biddings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this audaciously frank autobiography, the most glamorous figure since Lord Byron shares with us his confessions and his memories. ... Strange wastrel days ... flashes of long-gone frolics ... These astounding confessions bid fair to become the sensation of the literary year," said a Ladies' Home Journal advertisement in October, 1925. The article, thus heralded, appeared: it was neither rowdy nor pornographic. It was the well-mannered and suave memoirs of John Barrymore. Titillatable females who had been led to expect red-hot nights increased the circulation of the Ladies' Home Journal and were undoubtedly disappointed...
...days later, at Christie's famed London auction room, the Imperial Russian nuptial crown- composed of double rows of brilliants, surmounted by a diamond cross-was placed on sale by the Soviet Government, hawked, cried up from an initial bid of $25,000, auctioned off at last to a Parisian jeweler, M. Founess...
...consideration reported as $50,000. Since these two players, admittedly in the late twilight of their careers, had been adjudged of such value, Mr. Ruth was considered cheap at various salaries up to $1,000,000 per year. It was predicted that the New York owners would revise the bid...
...exhibition of reproductions of Old Master drawings wil be opened to the public on Monday, in the Print Room of the Fogg Museum. As heretofore, only students of the University may select and bid for the drawings...
...Sullivan '27, is expected to make the strongest bid for the coaxswain's seat in the first shell, which he coxed last year at New London. C. H. Pforahenimer '28, A. M. Pappenheimer '29, and Irving Neiman '29 are the other promising candidates for the steerman's berth...