Word: biddings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Young Sinners reveals Raymond Guion as a young libertine who regains his wind and his principles in the Adirondacks. Playwright Elmer Harris has made a bid for the prurient trade with a sex lecture more graphic than graceful...
...Could any of you, with all your capacity to forecast, then have said to both of us: 'Gentlemen, you will bid each other good night tonight at the corner of Holloway station, and it will be your fate not to meet again until invited as guests of His Majesty to partake of his hospitality at Buckingham Palace...
...showed it around. Everybody liked it. Belle da Costa Greene, able Morgan librarian, pronounced it the greatest portrait of her boss which she had ever seen. When she showed it to him, he declared he had never seen it before, authorized her to buy it. She made a bid of $5,000 to famed pioneer Photographer Alfred Stieglitz (TIME, Feb. 25), then editor of Camera Work, who owned the print. He refused. She then begged Photographer Steichen for another print. For three years he too refused...
...Cuthbertson and his wife, Josephine, famed as the most dangerous married couple in bridge. All felt that the occasion was significant for something beside the trophy at stake. It was a contest between two basic theories of contract bridge. In recent months the "Vanderbilt convention" (TIME, Sept. 30) -a bid of one club to oblige Partner to declare strength or weakness-has been losing caste. Replacing it has emerged a new convention, a "forcing" system in which the initial bidder, wanting stronger indication of his partner's strength, bids not one club but two in any suit. After many...
...might surely take command. Loudly, confidently at Post No. 2, Broker Whitney made known that he offered $205 per share for 25,000 shares of Steel-an order for $5,000,000 worth of stock at 15 points above the market. Soon tickers were flashing the news: "Steel, 205 bid.'' More and more steel was bought, until 200,000 shares had been purchased against constantly rising quotations. Other buyers bought other pivotal stocks. In an hour General Electric was up 21 points, Montgomery Ward up 23, Radio up 16, A. T. & T. up 22. How far the market...