Word: ticketes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Orange, N. J. When told that his blood transfusions were injections of salt, impatient Tony, tired of being flat on his back with "this ammonia," growled: "Why can't Mary [his wife] put the salt in the soup instead of punching me full of holes like a free ticket to a fight." ¶ Seattle's Al Hostak, 22-year-old pugilist: the middleweight championship of the world; by knocking out Champion Freddie Steele of Tacoma, in less than two minutes; before 35,000 astonished spectators; at Seattle. It was the 16th knockout in a row for young Hostak...
...watch France's Bastille Day celebration. Few days later, while his wife was shopping, he stepped down into the metro subway on his way to lunch. There, alone in the Place de la Concorde Station, his tired heart suddenly stopped. In his hand he still clutched his subway ticket. In his pocket...
...weeks. Months later, when the airlines finally got all their mail subsidy back, it was under the supervision of a newly constituted Air Mail Bureau of the Interstate Commerce Commission, and in the form of one-year contracts under which the carriers were never certain where their next meal ticket was coming from...
...Langer administration at Bismarck was full of graft. One mistake Mr. Langer made: he quarreled with able Representative William Lemke of Frazier-Lemke Farm Bankruptcy Act fame. For two days the wheat waved to & fro while the ballots were counted. The result: though all the rest of the Langer ticket won, Mr. Lemke won, and Neutrality's Nye squeaked through 89,224 votes to Langer...
...will accept the nomination." Some leaders rejoiced, others fumed. Franklin Roosevelt and Postmaster General Farley got together for a hasty conference. But such are the rules of party politics that, by his adroit and well-timed move, Governor Lehman had practically appropriated for himself one place on the ticket which the Roosevelt Administration had counted on disposing...