Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Some go to the cockfights at the Posada de los Cuatro Caminos, just outside the Federal District limits, where pesos change hands with every spur-thrust. Thousands play la bolita, an illegal policy game paying off 80 t01 on the last two numbers of the regular winning National Lottery ticket. In the bullfight fans' cafés such as the Tupinamba, big money is bet on which matador will get the privilege of cutting off a bull's ear in the Sunday corrida...
Trilby & Tweeds. The title made only a slight change in his double routine. Before each session of the House of Lords, the new peer, in his crumpled tweeds and battered old trilby, bought a third-class railway ticket and hopped a train for London. After that he returned to Oxford-to his wife, who refused to share his title ("We are simple people," she said), to his lunches of cold mutton and prunes, and to his troubled surveillance of some of Balliol's new postwar, government-aided scholarship students. Once he told the House of Lords...
Could Be. In Houston, police issued a traffic ticket to 23-year-old Farmer Ought To Be Minifee, later made out another for his brother, Must Be Minifee...
...stowaway, his wife Brunhilde, 37, set off in style last week to join him in the Soviet sector of Berlin. Because she was being deported (for overstaying her visitor's permit), the U.S. Government had to lay out $468.09 for her airline ticket. Even so, she was feeling a little miffed...
...Want Gershwin. Since the day in World War I when Minnie talked wealthy (copper mining) Adolph Lewisohn (Sam's father) into giving concerts free for the troops in his newly built City College stadium, she has also given her audiences great music year after year for ticket prices as low as 25?. She has given some new composers (George Gershwin) and little-known soloists (Marian Anderson) their first big concert breaks. The stadium's annual Gershwin nights are still its most frequent sellouts...