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Word: ticket (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...left Mr. Getchell's office and started to move back to the other side of the building. There was a one man line waiting in front of the ticket window. He might have been a friend of the seller...

Author: By Herbert S. Meyers, | Title: The Sporting Scene | 1/28/1950 | See Source »

...things in his pocket--a handkerchief, some matches, a spoon he had absentmindedly walked off with from supper three days before--there were also two sharp pieces of cardboard which Vag was unable to identify--he brought them out to have a look. They were two rather battered ticket stubs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 1/28/1950 | See Source »

...Smoker will be held in Memorial Hall and Sanders Theater, but '53 will pay 60 cents a ticket, "slightly more" than in previous years. Rising costs have boosted the price of the ticket to 50 cents, and the entertainment tax ups the price another dime...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman Talent May Perform at March 3 Smoker | 1/26/1950 | See Source »

Before he left, he dropped by the council to say goodbye to the boys. Most of them had come to have a grudging respect for the professor-when he had stumped for the regular ticket in 1940, they used to shout "Give us some of them words, Paul." But there were a few hecklers left. Old Ed Kelly, who was so fascinated by Douglas' oratory that he left standing orders to be notified whenever Douglas took the floor, promptly shut the hecklers up. Said Ed: "Any man who is willing to go and fight for his country at Paul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: The Making of a Maverick | 1/16/1950 | See Source »

...unlike theatergoing in other cities, excepting perhaps that in Philadelphia and New Haven. It can be very advantageous. Last March, or instance, any Bostonian with a couple of bucks and a good car to the ground could have done what many New Yorkers still can not do: get a ticket for "South Pacific." But if he had been a diligent theatergoer, chances are that he would have already paid out a small fortune for a whole string of duds last season before being rewarded with "South Pacific...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: THE PLAYGOER | 1/9/1950 | See Source »

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