Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pressed his trousers by using the running board and a towel for the ironing board; alto gether saved $375. Then he worked his way across the U.S. to his native North west, stopped at the Nippon Yusen Kaisha office in Seattle and paid $195 for a round-trip ticket to Yokohama, tourist class...
With such a ticket in the field we would sweep the country, wipe out every trace of New Dealism, return to normalcy and establish an administration which, while nothing to be exactly proud of, would certainly bring about a surprising degree of harmony. . . . Here's a ticket we zoo-percenters can stand on in the brave new world ahead...
...decided to be a war correspondent. He wired the Times, asked if it would pay his daily living expenses if he could get a free bomber ride to the Middle East. The Times wired him $1,500 and its blessing. Treanor invested $1,250 in a Pan American Airways ticket, arrived in Cairo as Nazi Marshal Rommel approached Alexandria...
There was one ASOTS casualty last week, Lt. J. F. (Farmer) Shultz. Lt. Shultz, a married man, attempted to crash a Saturday night dance in Cambridge. Being denied entrance because of a failure to possess a ticket, Shultz said, "My face is my ticket." Said the doorman, "Okay, I'll punch it." (You can still see the remanants of th deep black discoloration around the left...
Post-War Preview boasts nothing in the way of performers, singers or dancers, owes all to its showgirls, its shimmer and its savvy. But it is a nice theater ticket to get with the dinner check...