1. Cheating on the White House tour ticket line is a time-honored tradition, upheld by generations of scalpers.

2. Mr. Yu Qiuyu established the Chinese first ticket line.

3. I didn't realize the ticket line would be so long.

4. Edna Gilmartin looked more youthful and less formidable than I seemed to remember her from the ticket line at the Cort Theater.

5. I'm the guy who happily pays for a full-year museum membership so I can skip the long daily ticket line.

6. If he is running late, by contrast, he may try to push his way to the front of the ticket line before sprinting for the platform.

7. Most of the best daycare centers have waiting lists longer than a Stars Wars movie ticket line, and it takes time to find, interview and hire a nanny.

8. None of that mattered to Dong Hua, a sales executive from Zhejiang waiting in a ticket line at Beijing South station.