"Ticket office" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... medium-size, and 5 of those big, fat ones that a bald-headed man generally annoys. Then there were a lot of wind instruments, drums, et cetera. There were 600 performers on the stage, counting the chorus, with 4,500 people in the house and 3,000 outside yelling it the ticket office—also at the top of their voices—and swearing because they couldn't mortgage their immortal souls and hear Nilsson's coin silver notes. It was frightful. The building settled twelve inches in those two hours and a half, the electric lights went out nine ...
— Remarks • Bill Nye
... admiral, worn out in the service, is superannuated at 410l.. a year, a captain at 210l.., a clerk of the ticket office retires on 700l.. a year! The widow of Admiral Sir Andrew Mitchell has one third of the allowance given to the widow of ...
— The Life of Thomas, Lord Cochrane, Tenth Earl of Dundonald, G.C.B., Admiral of the Red, Rear-Admiral of the Fleet, Etc., Etc. • Thomas Cochrane, Earl of Dundonald |
