Word: ticketed
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...pubs, giving plays by Shaw, Clifford Bax, Ivor Brown. Soon to open as the Uniform Theatre is the Garrick on Charing Cross Road, which will admit the boy or girl friend of all war workers. Encouraging theatre attendance in Brighton and Ports mouth is a rule: those who have ticket stubs for cinema or theatre are exempt from the curfew...
...quite comes off. The principals: James Nathaniel Wishart, a cautious redhead who has been married for 20 years without finding out he is ticklish; Emmy Cruger, a divorced, slim-waisted, no longer youthful college teacher whose knees are ordinary but whose discernment is not. Businessman Wishart wants a return ticket to Cytherea. Emmy offers him the ticket but refuses to guarantee more than a one-way trip. Her attitude: "We have only one life to live, if that." So Wishart takes no trip. Though he is the man she wants, Emmy yields instead to a man she does not: Jervis...
...concentration which often made him better informed on House bills than their authors. When the late niggardly John Raymond McCarl (see p. 62) occupied the office, Washington dubbed him "Watchdog of the Treasury" for such piddling practices as forcing General John J. Pershing to pay for his own Pullman ticket after he had lost his voucher. Franklin Roosevelt, who cares little for such trivialities, was glad to see McCarl's term expire in 1936. After an unsuccessful attempt to abolish the post, he offered it to Warren, who promptly refused. This time, with billions going for defense, the President...
...group of itinerant muralists did a job in the church of the little Sao Paulo town where he was born. They let him help mix their paints, and even paint a star or two himself on the church's ceiling. Four years later with a second-class railroad ticket, three shirts and a pair of pants, he set out for Rio to study art. Kindly professors at Rio's School of Fine Arts offered to give him free lessons. At 15 milreis ($3.75) a month Candido Portinari took up lodgings in a bathroom, slept...
...Nomination III (see p. 9) was on a higher plane. Candidate Willkie grinned down at 400 earthy cattlemen, sheep raisers, herders and employes in the Denver stockyards, said: "I shall make no pretense of noble motives. ... I frankly sought the opportunity to run for President on the Republican ticket because I have some deep-seated convictions I want to present . . . carry into execution. I know something about the democratic way of life . . . from experience. . . . I learned about civil liberties, not in textbooks, but in a hard struggle for survival. I know your aspirations and your hopes, because...