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Word: ticket (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ticket sales have been "gratifying" according to ticket manager Thomas Ciddihy '50. He reported that one tenth of the tickets were sold within less than 24 hours after they were made available Wednesday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gwynne, Myhrum Cast in Leads of '49 Pudding Show | 2/26/1949 | See Source »

...spirit moves him, his majesty throws largess in the form of coconuts; Louis has stocked more than 2,000 of them. Waiting for him on a reviewing stand in front of the Gertrude Geddes Willis Funeral Home stands the Zulus' Queen (this year, attractive, brown-skinned Bernice Oxley, ticket taker at the Ace Theater). In a room where the caskets have been pushed back to the wall, she receives her lord's champagne toast. After the parade the long night of jazz-filled, carnival pandemonium begins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Louis the First | 2/21/1949 | See Source »

Also Ran. In Jacksonport, Wis., Oscar Scott got around to paying an election bet by pushing Mrs. H. B. Mogenson down Main Street in a wheelbarrow, was promptly given a ticket for operating a public conveyance without a license...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 14, 1949 | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

...result of all the Page One squabble: attendance at concerts had picked up-perhaps, mused one symphonygoer, because other ticket holders thought they might get to see somebody wrap a cello around somebody else's neck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: I Like This Way | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

...took us no more than the customary fifteen minutes to argue our way past the same ticket taker we had to argue our way past for the Annual Flower Show, The Annual Shoe Distributor's Exhibit, and the Annual Coin Collector's and Philatelist's Colloquium. The publicity agent however was a stranger-only the uniform looked familiar. His name was John Cotter and he were a double breasted pin striped number with a hand painted tie. His hat brim was turned...

Author: By Burton S. Glinn, | Title: Freshmen Cavort With Swim Star | 2/11/1949 | See Source »

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