Word: gyp
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have shown in recent films a happy tendency to satirize themselves. Love is all they take seriously now, and they may even change their attitude about that for the better. Norma Shearer, at least, outwitting Lowell Sherman, a rival racketeer, or finding out that the fellow she wants to gyp is not as rich as she hoped, provides an entertaining hour...
...Gyp the Blood, Leftie Louie, Dago Frank, etc., were executed for killing Rosenthal. Another Gyp the Blood, a onetime newspaper man, was an undercover prohibition agent...
Married. George Philip ("Gyp") Wells, able biologist, son of famed Novelist H. G. Wells; to his father's Scottish secretary, Marjorie Stewart Craig; in London...
...Gyp Joint...
...your issue of Feb. 8 (FRANCE), your little article under the caption of "Quel Beau Nu" doesn't exaggerate one bit. I spent the summer in Paris and was at the Concert Mayol several times. Why I went is beyond me, as it is without question the greatest "gyp" joint ever foisted on an American public. You can't turn around without bumping into an extended palm, and my first experience cost a 20-franc note for a one-franc service. They don't know the meaning of the word "change." The insipid Harry Pilcer was the leading (?) attraction...