Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week in London the U.S. Army Air Forces commissioned Major Benjamin Lyon, 41, of Baltimore, Hollywood and British Broadcasting Corp. The Army also qualified him for active service, presumably as an earth-bound intelligence officer (despite his 1,100 pre-war flying hours, his transport pilot's ticket...
Next day Ivy Litvinoff reviewed the performance in the Washington Post. With an Englishwoman's casualness about travel, and Soviet-bred disdain for Chekhov's pre-revolution neurotics, she sniffed at the idea that "it should take three perfectly healthy young women, with the price of a ticket in their pockets, four acts not to get to Moscow...
...simplicity of the occasion and to the problems of transportation," Harvey said, "the Committee hopes that guests will not come from far out of town." Families and friends who live in the near vicinity will be welcome, however, although admission to the baccalaureate service will probably be by ticket only...
...Nebraskan who voted a straight Republican ticket yesterday, I want to say that George W. Norris' record was not "repudiated" by us. That wasn't the issue...
...Culbert Olson, running far behind on the Democratic ticket, was soundly trounced by bustling Republican Attorney General Earl Warren. Although there was hardly a crackpot candidate or crackpot issue in the campaign, it was still one of the nation's liveliest. Comely Actress Helen Gahagan, Democratic National Committeewoman, shouted herself hoarse for Olson. Gregarious Actor Leo Carrillo, descendant of California's first provisional Governor, added gags to humorless Earl Warren's meetings. Typical Carrillo quip: introducing Warren to "my cousins" in the audience...