Word: raked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Theatre treasurers, as well as a number of managers, receive from the agencies a rake-off of anywhere from 25? to $2 a ticket for preferred locations. A $5.50 musical show is thus automatically boosted as high as $7.50. The agencies take on all the traffic they can bear. Often if they have not the tickets requested they purchase them from other brokers. The price bulges into double figures...
Fred C. Putnam is equally remarkable. He is almost a rake. He has an ambition to become "the Father of the Races" by having a mistress and a family of children in every land. At the time of the story he has perfected the arrangement in only about 20 nations...
...defendant made sales through the influence of persons prominent in American society, whose names, as a "professional secret," he refuses to disclose and who received substantial rake-offs for their services, this being the money he is charged with diverting to his own ends...
AREN'T WE ALL?Delightful drawing-room comedy offering Cyril Maude wide scope as a charming old titled rake who parks his brand-new sweeties in the British Museum...
...Debt owed by Britain to America has been settled. The British Government has decided not to rake up the ashes of the past and thus prolong a futile discussion. Harvey's remarks will therefore go ignored...