Word: gate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...refusal and an unsuccessful attempt by the usher to put him out, a police officer did so. Mrs. Saltoncabot followed. Outside the Stadium, but inside Soldiers Field, the head usher, Caroll Cetchell, was standing. He hissed to the plaintiff and his wife, gesturing with his thumb toward the gate...
...which are beside the point as long as footbal remains on its present basis, and has brought his whole case to its present low level by failing to point out that if West Point goes, all the other teams who are on the schedule for the sake of the gate, and all the other appurtenances of the mercenary outlook, must go at the same time...
...world championship won by the New York Giants from the Washington Senators last week was their first since 1922 when they beat the New York Yankees. Attendance was smallest in 15 years. From a total gate of $679,000 the players on both teams got $284,000, divided 60-40 between winners and losers. Each Giant player collected about $4,600, each Senator about $3.400. Manager William ("Memphis Bill") Terry got a five-year contract as player-manager at a rumored salary of $40,000 a year...
Boston's brilliant functions always attract a hoard of gate-crashers, worthy and otherwise. There were no crashers at the Conant Inaugural. Yet Colonel Apted was unable to prevent one person without an invitation from slipping through the police cordons and witnessing the ceremony...
Loughran's "end" was a percentage of the gate receipts in excess of Sharkey's guarantee; and less than 8,000 persons felt like paying to see a fight which could decide but one thing: which of two outworn heavyweights was due for immediate oblivion. Loughran, a quiet, well-liked fellow, had never been a powerful threat in the ring since he stepped up from the light-heavyweight class. Sharkey knocked him out four years ago. And now talkative, wealthy Sharkey, only three months ago the champion, had left his last claim to importance on the floor...