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Word: gouger (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, for the first time in 20 months, the law closed in on a gouger. Suspended for ten days was the city's No. 1 agency, the combined Tyson Operating Co. and Sullivan Theatre Ticket Service. Out of a job was $40-a-week Clerk Theresa Hale, who extracted $10 from Businessman Philip Stogel for four tickets to Meredith Willson's cornfest, The Music...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: The Untender Trap | 5/26/1958 | See Source »

...peace, with only the piping curlews, the fragrant bogs, the blue hills and the boneheaded peasantry for his inspiration. Typical is his story of The Challenge. A drunken tinker stands in a Connemara market place after a fair, offering to tear the living heart out of any Connemara gouger who will fight him. A few feet away a young Connemara man offers to crucify any tinker living. The two bawl insults at each other till the Civil Guards arrive, then meekly break it up without laying a finger on each other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tales from the Twilight | 7/17/1950 | See Source »

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