Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Quitting Alaska a year later with $6,000, Grauman was cleaned out by gamblers on the trip home. In San Francisco he got a job as ticket taker in the city's first movie house (said his boss, "Don't let even the wind get by without a ticket") and was reunited with his father at the ticket window. The two rented a store, fitted it up with 700 kitchen chairs, put on 15 shows a day of assorted vaudeville and one-reelers. "So we wouldn't lose a show, we fed the actors right...
...anxiously waiting for the Gooney bird eggs to hatch. They are due to break any day now. A lottery was drawn up some time ago, with tickets marked for every minute of every day for about two weeks. When the captain of the base sees the first young Gooney, he will mark down the minute, hour and the day and the one holding the ticket corresponding to this will win the big prize (about...
...fine an all-around conductor as Dr. Koussevitsky attempts so much modern music of such questionable quality as has filled the programs of Saturday night concerts this season. In spite of earnest efforts by Dr. Konssevitsky on be half of this generation of composers and what-nots, ticket holders at symphony Hall would give a warm welcome to more programs of the type given last night...
...Tommy Cook and his pals never were taught that if you run out and give your life in battle, you win a free ticket to a special warrior's heaven. They fought on the theory that the best soldier is the soldier who wants to live. And they fought with all the American ingenuity that is their heritage...
...exercises open by ticket to all, will begin at 2:30 with a prayer by Dean Willard L. Sperry of the Divinity School. John W. Sullivan '43 will deliver the Class Oration, and John L. Hoffman '43 will give the Class Poem. Selections by the Glee Club are planned as the next number on the program, to be followed by the Ivy Oration, presented by Joseph C. Scott '43. The assembled students are to join in singing the Ode, written by Eric Larrabee '43, with George R. Clay '43 the Chorister, conducting to close the afternoon...