Word: tickets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...third horse was African, owned by R. T. Wilson Jr. African and Dr. Freeland were jointly entered by their owners. People who bet on African were paid $9.70 for a $2 mutuel ticket just as though they had bet on Dr. Freeland...
...join our party or we will get your two children on May Day!" This threat, whispered by Communists over and over to simple Thomas Testa, Parisian factory worker, so preyed on his mind that last week, mad with fear he rushed into the Metro (subway), dashed through the ticket puncher's wicket, flung himself off the platform before an oncoming train. The cars only took off one of his legs...
...evil effects of the Jones Act] could be avoided if the party in power would remember that it was elected on the Republican ticket, and not on the prohibition ticket...
Manhattan is crowded with theatre-ticket agents, scalpers. Agents fill telephone and last-minute orders, make a regular service charge. Scalpers offer last-minute tickets for whatever exorbitant prices can be obtained...
...purposes of advertising, Life, weekly funnypaper, has started a theatre ticket service whereby seats may be obtained at box-office prices by mail orders sent at least one week before the performance date. There is no charge for the service. To combat scalping. Life seats are not delivered to buyers until after 8 p. m. on the performance night...