Word: biddings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There "knock-out" is a kind of smart chicanery by which art dealers reap illicit gains. Instead of bidding against each other, they obtain valuable objects at insignificant cost by forming a pool and appointing a representative to bid for them. Whatever is bought in the interests of the pool is sold again to private individuals or at other auctions and the profits divided. It was an open secret among the Trade in London that the Leverhulme "knock-out" would net its participants approximately half a million dollars out of the pockets of the estate...
...this picture, particularly the early parts, make enormously amusing screen material. One finds a tale of English nobility; a runaway couple coming back after 20 years to warn the daughter of the woman in the case not to run away with someone else's husband. It is a bid for happiness that life will defeat. Somerset Maugham wrote the original comedy. As is customary a new ending has been written, quite destroying the author's original intent. One is used to those things by now, and thankful for sequences of shrewd amusement in the earlier reels...
...nothing. By chance Benoni learned there were lead and silver along a stretch of shore. He cared nothing for that. He wanted the rocks for fish-drying and bought them for one hundred dollars. Came a testy Englishman, with a mineralogist. While stupid Benoni fumbled for answers, the Englishman bid up to twenty thousand. Benoni's staggering imagination doubled the sum and collapsed. The Englishman had a title drawn and stalked...
...Cambridge which greets the returning student this September wears an aspect quite different from that which bid him good by last June. Newly finished buildings and great excavations for others have established new landmarks...
Seven years ago Feldmarschall von Hindenburg relinquished his command of the German Army and bid what he almost certainly thought would be a permanent farewell to military pomp, for he was then 71. A few days ago President von Hindenburg, Commander-in-Chief of the armies of Germany, donned again the full uniform of a Feldmarschall and was cheered to a frenzied echo as he reviewed the troops of the Republic at Neubrandenburg. Flags flew: the black white and red standards of Imperial Germany...