Word: auctioning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Santiago last week, the furnishings of the Soviet Embassy were sold at auction. Prices were disappointing. A living-room set was knocked down for 6,000 pesos ($120 at the free market rate) to the same furniture shop that sold it to the Russians when they moved in a little over a year ago. A samovar brought 500 pesos; newspapers noted that under the longer Spanish name (urna rusa para agua caliente) samovars could be bought anywhere in Santiago. A leftist politician with an ideological itch bought the furnishings of Zhukov's office (desk, chairs, lamps...
Crimson property in the Simmons sight-unseen date auction last night came off a woeful third to Tafts and M.L.T. entries as Senior Chuck Bilbeldt sold for $6.50 and the other two for $12.00 and $7.00, respectively. Simmons offered an apologias, however, stating that Hilboldt went on the blook first, before we reality got excited...
Simmons girls will have a chance to buy a Harvard man tonight, but they will have to give him back after one evening's entertainment. Charles S. "Chuck" Hilboldt '48 will go up on the auction block along with a "tall bland" from Tufts and in the college's assemble hall...
...many at the auction, Doré's paintings looked like tremendously outsized Sunday school chromos darkened by varnish and dirt. In the general murk, Moses could be discerned gesticulating at Pharaoh, a sad-faced monk daydreamed over an organ, pagan gods fell in a heap beneath a cross, and Paolo and Francesca embraced in hell. Critics wondered how the great illustrator could possibly have turned out such daubs...
...auction was a slow, staid, unexciting affair, and individual bids had reached a total of only $10,829 when a man named John M. Holzworth, identified in Who's Who as a lawyer and big-game hunter, offered $12,500 for the lot. The auctioneer promptly canceled all previous bids in favor of Holzworth's and shut up shop. But next day Gustave Doré's paintings were still gathering grime in the warehouse. As a final twist, which Balzac might have appreciated, Collector Holzworth was arrested, charged with passing phony checks...