Promoters always hastened to place their choice tickets in the hands of the wealthy speculators, and only the man who knew the man who knew the fellow who had an in with the guy at the box office ever came up with a good seat for a contest of any importance.

) Among those who critiqued him from the left were Marxist-humanist Raya Dunayevskaya, fellow German emigre Paul Mattick, both of whom subjected One-Dimensional Man to a Marxist critique, and Noam Chomsky, who knew and liked Marcuse " but thought very little of his work.

Mozart lived at the center of the Viennese musical world, and knew a great number and variety of people: fellow musicians, theatrical performers, fellow Salzburgers, and aristocrats, including some acquaintance with the Emperor Joseph II.

When fellow mafioso Salvatore Cancemi confessed to Buscetta at a trial in 1993 that he had strangled Buscetta's two sons, Buscetta forgave him saying that he knew that he could not have refused the order.

" The issue that was troubling the Justice Ministry was not the allegation that vom Rath had had a sexual relationship with Grynszpan-they knew that to be false, and in fact they knew Grynszpan had told some of his fellow prisoners at Sachsenhausen that it was false.

One of Norman's musical influences was fellow American singer songwriter Bob Dylan, whom he knew personally but not well.

A bright student who counted among his contemporaries in UCD his future political rival, Charles Haughey, who also knew Joan O ' Farrell ( the Liverpool-born daughter of a British army officer, Richard O ' Farrell ) a fellow student, whom FitzGerald married in 1947.

Much like fellow alternative rock / industrial band Nine Inch Nails, Crosby was the only member but found a touring band who knew the songs well enough to play with him live.

Vang Pao's fellow friends, including Hmong, Mienh, Lao, Vietnamese, and Americans individuals who knew Vang Pao protested the arrest and rallied throughout California, Minnesota, Michigan, North Carolina and Wisconsin.

During this period he wrote to Katherine Boyle ( née Salvin ), the widow of his friend and fellow officer James Boyle, whom he knew from his time in Ireland.

He ran for student senate and opined in the school newspaper that his fellow students should vote for him because he knew that, " These conservative kids don't fuck or get high like we do ( purity, you know )...

As fellow Hall of Famer Joe Morgan wrote, " Anyone who knew Larry knew that he admired Robinson and was never jealous of the attention Robinson received.

In an 1896 article, Wyatt Earp said that " Doc was a dentist, not a lawman or an assassin, whom necessity had made a gambler ; a gentleman whom disease had made a frontier vagabond ; a philosopher whom life had made a caustic wit ; a long lean ash-blond fellow nearly dead with consumption, and at the same time the most skillful gambler and the nerviest, speediest, deadliest man with a six-gun that I ever knew.

Being a fellow monk of the same abbey, William almost certainly obtained his account directly from people who knew Eilmer himself when he was an old man.

He made an appeal before the Chamber of Deputies in which he told his fellow deputies that everyone knew of the widespread irreguralities in the public financing of parties, accused them ( the deputies ) of hypocrisy and cowardice, and finally called for solidarity and protection from prosecution from all MPs to his party.

Two years later, during debate on Clinton's impeachment, fellow Republican Mitch McConnell, a close friend of Packwood's, said that the Republicans knew that it was very likely Packwood's seat would fall to the Democrats if Packwood were forced out.

Kearny's courage earned him the respect of his soldiers and fellow officers alike ; General-in-Chief Winfield Scott called him " a perfect soldier " and " the bravest man I ever knew.

) In the Malay States, Major Plank knew a fellow ..

Few of his fellow musicians knew that Brown's given name had not always been Steve.

Survivors suggest that John Bradley fled to Rosewood because he knew he was in trouble and had gone to the home of Aaron Carrier, a fellow veteran and Mason.

He knew who was riding after him -- the men he had known all his life, the men who had worked for him, sworn their loyalty to him.

But if they really hoped to succeed they needed professionals, men who knew how to use a gun against men, who would match the killers on the other side.

She had offered to walk, but Pamela knew she would not feel comfortable about her child until she had personally confided her to the care of the little pink woman who chose to be called `` Auntie ''.

`` Everyone knew it, but he sort of acted like he didn't care who knew it -- even after them notes came, even after he'd heard about Lewis, even after he'd been shot at a couple o' times hisself ''!!

those who wrote them knew people and what made people tick.

If it were not that I knew who it was I could have mistaken it for my Aunt so well did her clothes fit him.

Some, she knew, looked upon Thompson almost as a saint, but others read in `` The Hound Of Heaven '' what they took to be the confessions of a great sinner, who, like Oscar Wilde, had -- as one pious writer later put it -- thrown himself `` on the swelling wave of every passion ''.

it was the clerks who caused the mischief and who made him say that the ruling passion of their race was covetousness and that in dealing with them he never knew whether he had to do with a Frenchman or with a devil.

In 1945, probably almost every American not only knew who Sam Spade was, but had some kind of emotional feeling about him.

But, who knew, that might be coming one of these days.

For a moment she thought of answering with the truth but she knew there were men who shied away from virginity, who demanded some degree of education in body as well as mind.

It was a Cadillac, black grayed with the dust of the road, its windows closed tight so you knew that the people who climbed out of it would be cool and unwrinkled.

Some years ago this Class was judged by celebrities who knew nothing of what was required of a Junior's ability to show a dog.

Perhaps he had better have someone help him put up the pegboard and build the workbench -- someone who knew what he was about.

Music, of course, is not so explicit an art, but anybody who knew Charlie Parker knows that he felt much the same way about his own gift.

The suggestion that Giffen hire out the slaves was not realistic, since no planter would take the risk of having Negroes who knew they were to be free living with his own slaves.

At the inquest she was asked specifically whether she knew anybody her father had bad feelings toward, or who had bad feelings toward her father.

He was silent a moment, thinking he could use a man this time of year, and if the girl could cook, it would give him more time in the meadows, but he knew nothing about the couple.

I knew that three or four of them were almost always present in the hall, but what they were doing, and exactly where, I could not tell.

Through the gloom he could not see the man beside him clearly but he knew him thoroughly.

For everyone involved knew that the whole valley was a powder keg, and Mitchell Barton the fuse which could send it into explosive violence.

He could move very quickly, she knew ( although he seldom found occasion to do so ), but he was more wiry than truly strong.

And even with her limited knowledge of such things, she knew that the car could be repaired there ; ;

Not that her mother knew what had happened, but they could speculate upon it.

So far as he knew, only his father could be there.

What had caught his attention was obscured by the car itself, so that neither the girl nor the truck drivers could see, but Benson knew what it was.

No matter what troubles might betide him, this most American of artists knew in his heart he could not function properly outside his native land.

He spoke no German but he could sing it and the words of the song were the only ones he knew in a foreign language.

He knew that in this mood he could not be stopped.

He could not make out, but he knew that again she was scratching her nose.

It could continue this way, hitting 106 and more in the Valley, Joe McFeeley knew, into October.

Going downstairs with the tray, Winston wished he could have given in to Miss Ada, but he knew better than to do what she said when she had that little-girl look.

He admitted that he knew it was open to him at all times, and he could have rebutted it before the hearing officer.

Regardless of how much of a slob you knew yourself to be, you could be certain they would never find out -- and even if they did it would make no difference.

For three years, since the liquor territorial conference, Torrio had, with his elastic patience, and because he knew that retaliation could cause only violent warfare and disaster to business, tolerated O'Banion's impudent double-crossing.

He could lead a patrol and he knew his paper work.

for every grown man ( except a few who were always suspected of being shy on virility ) knew at least the fundamentals of baseball, just as every male American in this era liked to imagine ( or pretend ) that he could fight with his fists.

They knew that I was still grieving over the tragic event, and they felt that if I could see the recovery and the spirit of the people, who hold no grudge, but who also regret Pearl Harbor, I would be happier and would understand better a new Japan.

He knew Vince Steiner was one of those men who had to work up a fury once in a while just to prove how dangerous he could be.

He was invulnerable to attack, but he could be handled, Mickey knew, if he could be brought to make the first move.