Word: gate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Football, like all other business enterprises, is feeling the effects of the times. Gate receipts, as might be expected, are not as large as they were a year or two ago. People are choosing their games with more discrimination, and "sell-out" crowds are exceptional rather than the rule...
Most obvious this plan tends less towards commercializing football because it is not a case of the gate receipts being used or of the team alone making the money. The contributions will have a more voluntary character than round robin tickets. While everyone will have an opportunity to give, the spectators may be expected to contribute according to their ability just like the income tax. The rich banker is not going to buy a whole flock of tickets to any charity football game, nor it is likely, with all our precedents of quotas and pinning, that he would be allowed...
...anxious conjecture filled Buckingham Palace on election day this week. Outside, London wallowed in a yellow pea-soup fog. Below stairs, Royal scullery, parlor and chamber maids made no secret of their voting intentions as they hustled into bonnet and wrap, groped in a body out the fogbound back gate. Two footmen, the Palace womenfolk considered, were the only possible waverers. They had expressed Socialist opinions at the height of a servants' ball last year, but not since. One of these very footmen brought to the Royal study the latest newspapers for which George V repeatedly buzzed. Compared...
...incident, amplified it. Out of the welter of discussion which ensued throughout the U. S., there emerged the name & fame of The Little Church Around the Corner. To celebrate it and tell its history there was published last fortnight an elegantly bound and printed volume, Through the Lich-Gate.* Some facts...
...During the draft riots of 1863, mobs stampeded the streets, hunting Negroes. The Church of the Transfiguration had previously been believed to be an "underground station" for runaway slaves. Dr. Houghton, stanch Abolitionist, hid many Negroes in it during the riots, once stood defiantly at the gate shouting: "You white devils, you! Do you know nothing of the spirit of Christ?" Today in the Church is a memorial to George & Elizabeth Wilson. Negro doorkeepers, representing the baptism of the Ethiopian by St. Philip...