Word: window
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that there is a lack of communication between the students and the ticket office. Neither seems to understand the other, but neither is making an effort. I am sure that the HAA would make the effort, but I am not so sure the students would. In working behind the window, I have been amazed to find how badly the ticket office employees are treated by those who pass before them...
...ECAC hockey games. There was no notice of the ticket sale anywhere except on the door. It had been put up there only that morning. They were to go on sale at 3 p.m., but the line began forming at 1:30 p.m. By the time the windows opened the number in line far exceeded the meagre supply the HAA had for us. At 2 p.m. a woman showed up and said that she had just called the office and they had said come at 2 p.m. She knocked on the window and got her tickets. When we knocked...
...knock on the door for three minutes before they even answered him (Wadaya want?). Another minute of arguing before they let him in (We ain't got no tickets for you). But he got his tickets. A third person, obviously an ancient athlete, who knew the man at the window by first name, said his tickets had been reserved by...(another first name) and got them immediately. Another man went back to get tickets for Saturday's game and came out soon saying to the person for whom he was getting the tickets: "Don't worry...
...being answered in the office, while secretaries and old jocks rushed in and out. Sometimes they actually laughed at us--"What do you want? Ha ha." Other times they reassuringly said that we had to wait until "he" was finished "counting" the tickets. When I finally got to the window, there was this rather angry man--who obviously ran the place--who kept saying with hatred; "Stay in line boys, you won't get service any other way," and "I don't want any trading--hey, what are you doing...?" and "Don't ask me any questions...
...Trade. Arriving in the U.S. from his native Germany in 1856, Frederick August Otto Schwarz went to work for a Baltimore stationery importer. German exporters at that time sometimes packed toys in with their stationery in the hope of expanding their export lines. Schwarz put the toys in the window, and soon they were outselling stationery. By 1862 Schwarz had switched to selling nothing but toys; in 1870 he moved his business to Manhattan, where he quickly gained a reputation for "exclusive" imports that won him the favor of the carriage trade...