Word: auction
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...that as a Freemason, he might be helpful in backing Hofdemel's candidacy for the same order. History does not record whether Mozart repaid the loan. But last week the letter, written in 1789, just two years before the composer's death, brought $5,738 at an auction in Cologne-more than ten times the asking price...
...warehouse full of Hollywood history was on the block, but few of Hollywood's own won out in the bidding. At the auction of 46 years' and a rumored $1,600,000 worth of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer props and costumes, Debbie Reynolds tried to buy her own brass bed from The Unsinkable Molly Brown, but just didn't want to go as high as $3,000. The day belonged to unknown buyers, who put up $2,400 for Bert Lahr's cowardly-lion suit from The Wiz ard of Oz and $1,250 for Clark Gable...
...assets before buying into the Estate Zone. And he is blocked from ownership in the Suburban Zone-unless he either finds a white owner ready to sell privately ("perhaps," as the rules suggest, "at a premium"), bids highest at a white's bankruptcy auction, or lucks onto an opportunity card that opens the suburbs to him. He may, of course, run into another sort of op portunity card. One that says, for ex ample, "Mayor Daley reelected. You are picked up and taken directly to the police station for interrogation." Or "Draft call. Roll dice. If you roll...
Local blacks loudly protested, demanding that the students auction the car to reimburse the black community with the money they had wasted on the car. The students finally raised the money to pay the blacks...
While the rest of the economy suffers depressions, the art market soars. At an auction last week in Manhattan's Parke-Bernet Galleries, buyers spent $5,852,250 for 72 Impressionist and modern paintings, another $906,375 for 19th and 20th century sculpture. The biggest sale was Van Gogh's Le Cypres et I'Arbre en Fleurs, a sun-touched landscape he painted in the asylum at St. Remy in the last busy and desperate year of his life. It is a relatively small canvas (20¼ in. by 25½ in.), certainly...