Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...extra ticket, mistah?" The urchins were flanking him, demanding his attention, scowling at him. "Got an extra ticket?" He stopped in the middle of Larz Anderson Bridge and carefully poured one eye-socket of bourbon...
Well, he did have an extra ticket. He considered making a small paper airplane out of it and sailing it into the Charles. But what the hell--why not let a townie go to the game? A warm flush of pity momentarily overwhelmed him as he thought of the deed, but it was replaced by a keener flush of something he chose to call maganimity--the feeling that one never stands as straight as when one stoops to help a child...
With bold stride he advanced toward the first pipe he heard and thrust the ticket into an outstretched hand. He started to walk away but, reflecting that the ticket placed the object of his magnamimity next to him, slowed up and said, "Come on, we'll miss the kickoff," in a gruff masculine voice. Together, Vag and the urchin passed through the turnstile and out onto Soldiers Field...
Sebbie shrugged. "Eh, Sometimes I sneak into a B.C. game, if it's not too important. It's pretty hard to get in around here. You're the first guy to give me a ticket this year. The last guy I went with was really a jerk. I bet no girl would go to a football game with him. You're o.k. though...
...compliment in silence. As he walked down the steps to his seat with Sebbie, it seemed as if everyone he knew was sitting around him. For a moment he considered treating Sebbie as if he were a disagreeable ticket-taker who was taking advantage of him. Friends at the club, a fellow who had roomed down the hall freshman year, a ex-girl friend--their voices and waving arms pursued him like Furies as he fought his way to a seat beside Sebbie, who had wasted no time in finding Row L., Seat...