Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...twelve years and three elections, hen-shaped old Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia had ruled the political roost. He had been able to beat any & every combination of political bosses solely on the vote of the people, who loved him. Last month he had quipped: "I can run on a laundry ticket and beat these political bums any time." But the people had grown tired of his wham-handed whims, his snooping, his ranting. "The Hat" bowed out-or said...
Through all this, Mayor LaGuardia went smilingly about his business. He jeered at the three Irishmen (Boss Flynn of the Bronx, Boss Kelly of Brooklyn and O'Dwyer) who had patched together the Democratic ticket. Said The Hat: "It looks to me like a case of rape by acquiescence and consent, and a good time was enjoyed...
...proposed amendments would mean the end of effective price control and would inevitably result in general inflation. . . . Senator Taft has picked out a profit standard which would raise manufacturers' total profits far above the record levels even of 1944. . . . Senator Thomas' amendment [is] write-your-own-ticket pricing which would be wholly unenforceable...
Critical judgments apart, it was a big night at "The Wells." Peter Grimes was England's first new opera in almost ten years. The score called for some 200 singers and musicians. Gallery oldtimers had set up their camp stools in ticket queues 24 hours in advance. Ecstatic music-lovers kept throwing bouquets at the cast and composer until the historic old stage was carpeted with flowers. The peerage showed up in more furs, white ties and tiaras than Londoners had seen since the war began...
Harvard bats, which had previously rolled up such winning margins as 10-0, 11-0, 10-2, and 10-0, came through again in the last half of the inning, if not as lustily as usual. Ken Crumrine, after receiving a free ticket to first, worked his way around the bases by stealing second, taking third on Jack Forte's roller, and scoring easily as Art Conlon's grounder was fumbled...