Word: gee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...House of Lords learned, last week, from Baron Gorell how to "gazoomph a sarker," "noise the edge," and "sling a gee." This information was imparted by the Noble Lord, after he had spent a month in English provincial towns, spying and eavesdropping upon the uncouth persons who hold bogus auctions...
...When the 'ricks' find a 'sarker' or victim with money†, it 'becomes the object of the 'hammerer' to 'gazoomph' him; and this or any swindle is known as 'slinging a gee...
...ranch near Fairfield, Calif., one Leung Ling or Loy Yeung, a Chinese cook, paid a visit. On his arrival, he took a rifle and a hatchet and killed one Wong Gee, Mrs. Wong Gee and three Wong Gee children. This done, he slaughtered Wong Hueng, whose brother owned the ranch, an old Chinaman named Low Chuck and three others. Then, in an automobile which had belonged to one of his enemies, Leung Ling set out for ways that were dark. California police, while they were perturbed, seemed less troubled than they were last spring when a U. S. youth hacked...
...clay. Manager Walter Johnson, drawn and underweight from influenza, sat on a bench in plain clothes and a raincoat and watched the Giants in the year's first game beat the Newark Bears, 8 to 0. Bill Terry, infielder, knocked a home run the first time at bat. "Gee, I wish I could get out and throw a few" Johnson said, shifting on the bench...
...little roommate beamed. "Gee! Is she a real lady?" That went unanswered...