Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Once I saw Kittredge in the railway station in New York walking among the people waiting to take the train, and apparently offering something for sale with poor results. I asked him what on earth was going on, and he explained he had bought a ticket for this train and then found he could not get a parlor car seat, so he was trying to sell his ticket, wait an hour and get a seat where he could do some work. "Every man I approach thinks I'm a crook," he said...
...disliked fighting, Joe Louis did pretty well. In the winter of 1935, six months after his first professional match, New York boxing promoters already had their eyes on him. One of them was shrewd Mike Jacobs, Broadway ticket speculator, who was looking for an up-&-coming heavyweight to fight giant Primo Camera for the benefit of Mrs. William Randolph Hearst's pet charity, the New York Milk Fund...
Yesterday a new type of football hero earned his free ticket to Valhalla. Phil Alexander '42, double-flip expert and cheerleader-extraordinary, pulled a tendon while doing a "today's acrobatic special...
Flatly asserting that the H.A.A. football ticket drawings were absolutely impartial, and that BellBoys, rat-house denizens, and commuters were not being discriminated against, Frank Lunden, general ticket manager, yesterday revealed the order in which applications will be filled...
Manager Bill McKechnie of the Cincinnati Reds bought a plane ticket from Chicago to Pittsburgh, jumped into a cab after he landed, ordered the driver to Forbes Field. The driver had never heard of it. McKechnie seethed but it was not the driver's fault. McKechnie had hopped the wrong plane, was sitting in a cab in Detroit...