Word: ticker
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...Ticker for the debate may be provender at the Harvard Comparative. Leave in a perch's and at the door of the Music Building...
...factors which, beside the presence of the Marx Brothers, contributes most to the success of the performance is the unusual quality of the sets they are simple, but strikingly original, especially the ticker tape finale to the Wall Street scene, and the Chinatown opium den, which is a realization of one's most extravagant dreams of what a layout ought to look like...
...around in their clubs, drinking their whiskeys and sodas. Every now and then, someone would stride to the ticker and a chorus would call "What's the news?" The news was invariably bad, but the old gentlemen were always more hopeful after another whiskey and soda...
...customers came in throngs, but calm throngs. It was the public's market, with a ticker 15 or 20 minutes late and no frenzied strain watching for the plays of professionals on the floor. The usual large figures were pushed right out of the picture...
...record was reached. The trading done on that day was only once exceeded in the history of the Exchange -on a Saturday, and that once in panic-time-the silver panic of 1906. It was not until 20 minutes after twelve noon, normal closing time, that the demented ticker, chattering, jabbering, scribbled the word "Close," marking the end of the day's operations, of a week of nationwide buying...