Word: ticketless
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Short-tempered, sweating boatmen struggled to push their sampans and junks close to the fantail of the SS Kiangya, Chinese coastal steamer loading last week at Shanghai for Ningpo. From the cramped decks of the small boats on to the steamer's overhang clambered frantic, ticketless Shanghailanders trying to flee the frightened city. Others clogged the wharves, straining to catch tickets thrown them from portholes by friends already aboard...
...frustrating shortage of space for the Yale weekend dances. But their mightiest efforts have been snarled in the sticky web of a divided and slow University Hall chain of command that hampers a real desire for cooperation and threatens to taint the weekends of many date-laden, but ticketless students...
...possibility of one evildoer among them, 272 military, city and Capitol police, 90 detectives and 60 Secret Service men swarmed in and around the building. Ticketholders jammed the front door of the House wing. A Texas state senator and the Governor of North Carolina tried to wedge in ticketless, were sent packing. "Get back there!" barked a policeman as he collared another man, tall, dour-faced, pince-nezed, who was trying to push by. "I'm the Secretary of the Treasury," said Henry Morgenthau, mildly. Inside, each ticketholder was given a brisk frisk for weapons before he could proceed...
...Monday night opening of "Kicked Upstairs" was handicapped by its upstairs audience. The psychological uneasiness of empty seats in the first balcony was not too neatly, and rather belatedly, ameliorated by the arrival of ticketless sidewalk patrons. Their unresponsiveness was distinctly formulated in a loud burp which marred the clever pantomime of the first scene...