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...seated'-and immediately began to talk such inexplicable rubbish about reconnoitring the village, the old Sabakin, the swindling representative, the bloody Tsar Nicholas, Isabella and other things, that the women were absolutely tongue-tied with fright and respect, and the driver exclaimed in a drunken voice, 'Gee up,' and clapped his arms across his chest with sheer delight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Soviet Laughter | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

Died. Robert Henri, 64, of Manhattan, artist (La Neige, Spanish Gypsy, Willie Gee, Dutch Joe), teacher of Artists George Bellows and Rockwell Kent; in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jul. 22, 1929 | 7/22/1929 | See Source »

...Partial or low-church Nudists exist who hold out for gee-strings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Nude Gooseberry | 7/1/1929 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Like a Lord | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Like a Lord | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

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