Word: gated
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gate. For three minutes, 57 seconds of his time, Dempsey received $475,000. Firpo's three minutes, 47 seconds of consciousness netted him a flat $100,000. These generous sums were subscribed by about 80,000 paying guests among the 90,000 persons present. Promoter Rickard and the tax collectors enjoyed the remainder of his $1,082,593 gross receipts...
...salary cut into the Argentinian's profits. In DeForest's stead Firpo engaged Senor Horatio Lavalle of Argentina, who serves without pay. The press remarked that Firpo was " hard to beat at figures." Firpo has fought a number of low caliber performers, thereby gaining certain gate receipts. The press remarked that Firpo was " fond of his purse" and dubbed him " Business-Man Firpo." This criticism is evidently aimed at the young Argentinian on the grounds that he engages in sport and that a sportsman has no particular right to make a good living by hard work. Professional boxing...
John D. Rockefeller, Jr.: "My sister-in-law, Miss Lucy Aldrich, who was captured by bandits at Shantung, China, several weeks ago, arrived at the Golden Gate...
...Tegland, Roy Quick, Paddy Ryan, Soapy Williams, Ike Rude, Powder River Thompson, Hugh Strickland, Mabel Strickland (world's woman champion in 1922), Bonnie McCarroll, Rene Halfley, Bonnie Gray. They pay their own way and come under the following instructions: "If you do your part, your share in the gate receipts should take care of your expenses; if you think you are good there is no excuse for your not being here; if you really are good here is the place it will pay you to prove...
Firpo received $110,000 as his share of the "gate"; Willard received...