Word: seated
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first time in Mexican history, the National Lottery will hold a $2 million drawing. But a complete ticket costs $400, is not for the ordinary man. The bullfight, once the national sport, has also become the privilege of the few; big spenders pay from $20 to $30 for a seat each Sunday. At the jai-alai Frontōon four nights a week the betting is hysterical...
...marathon at Manhattan's Carnegie Hall was half over, and no one seemed to be tiring. By last week 2,760 seat-holders and 100 standees had heard half of the more than 170 piano compositions Chopin wrote; in another month of weekly recitals they will have heard just about all of them...
Sixty cents plus the coupon in the H.A.A. ticket booklet will purchase a $1.25 seat, $1 plus the coupon will be needed for a $2 seat, and $1.25 and the coupon nets a $2.75 location, Lunden continued...
Thus far the Labor Party had not lost a seat in 23 by-elections although its majorities had been reduced. Not since 1874-75 when Disraeli's Government went 16 months without losing a seat, had any British Government held so firm...
...young and mischievous dancer named Iva Kitchell had rented Manhattan's 2,700-seat Carnegie Hall with considerable misgivings last week. But dance fans almost filled the place. Wrote the New York Times's dance critic John Martin: "If Miss Kitchell has her eye on Madison Square Garden, her friends need feel no qualms. . . . She . . . ought to be compelled to travel about the country on the trail of the various ballet companies to restore sanity...