Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...William Jennings ("grape juice") Bryan whose opposition to a Smith nomination in 1924 was second only to the McAdoo bitterness, is a candidate for the Democratic nomination for Governor of Nebraska this year. His method of anchor-swallowing last week, was to announce that he would support the Democratic ticket from the president down, for the following reason: "The Prohibition issue which I have objected to having injected into national campaigns was brought to the fore by the Republican party, in order to befuddle the public and lead them away from the real issue of the campaign, an economic issue...
Nellie: "Joe, dear, my answer is yes." In February, Joe Sleet sent Nellie Wallace a ticket and she came to El Paso. He saw then, for the first time, that Nellie Wallace was fat as butter; she appeared cheerful however and he did not regret his correspondence. They had a wedding...
...scoundrels, blacklegs and professional pickpockets, treasury raiders, till tappers, exploiters of women, card sharpers, commission killers, per diem gun men, contract bombers and percentage kidnappers used all their violence to nominate a ticket which would be good for four years more of all this, dated from next November, and the combinations of politics, crime and vice were defeated in a desperate effort of the people of Chicago to get rid of them...
...best, but (like all good gamblers) he would bet on anything uncertain. He started out as an accountant in England; he staked gamblers when they were down and out. Writing he found arduous; he got his nickname from the way he always signed a booky's ticket. He invented certain words which remained his own and did not become slang. When one of his friends died or a winner finished in the ruck, Nick would say, "He wiggled...
...most sizable U. S. cities, the policemen at traffic stops or walking their beats in residential districts make a practice of accosting peaceful citizens several times a year and shoving forward a printed ticket in a purposeful way. The ticket often resembles, in color and size, the card that one gets for speeding, parking without lights or committing a nuisance. The citizen's relief is great when he finds that he has not been arrested, that the ticket is merely an admission to the next policemen's ball or euchre-fest or field day. The citizen now exhibits...