Word: scalper
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...time. Each morning he goes to the nearly-completed Empire State (world's tallest) Building of which he is president & director; each afternoon to the County Trust Co. of New York of which he is board chairman. He also serves the League of New York Theatres (anti-scalper) as "people's representative," and the Emergency Employment Committee. Last fortnight he visited his friend Vincent Astor in New York Hospital, last week danced at Governor Roosevelt's re-inauguration in Albany...
...Americanisms to be despised? Henry Louis Mencken, defining them, says "The English seldom devise anything as pungent as rubberneck, ticket-scalper, lameduck, pork-barrel, bootlegger, steamroller (in its political sense). Such exhilarating novelties are produced in the U. S. every day, and large numbers of them come into universal use, and gradually take on literary dignity. They are opposed violently, but they prevail...
...there from the various assemblies of his revues. He is just about to scalp another soul (subtitle writers are warned that this morbidly mixed metaphor is copyrighted and its use forbidden, no matter how great the temptation). That's where the man from Syracuse comes in. The soul-scalper is played by Rockliffe Fellowes in a manner to reinforce the growing judgment that he is about the next star to be discovered in the crowded California heavens...