Word: gyp
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...South Texas Association's field trials began 15 years ago. First day of last week's meet was devoted to the Bench Show, in which dogs are judged solely on build and looks. In this event a 13-month-old black, white & tan Walker "gyp" (Texan for bitch) named Bess, owned by Paul Johnson of Liberty Hill, took the grand championship. Inexperienced, she made no showing in the field trials of the next three days, in which judges picked a 3-year-old gyp named Keno, owned by Robert Spurgeon Guyness of Poteet, as best...
Died. Louis William ("Bridgie") Webber, 59, Manhattan gambler who turned State's evidence in 1912 to convict Manhattan Police Lieut. Charles Becker and four gunmen-"Lefty" Louis Rosenberg, Harry ("Gyp the Blood") Horowitz, "Whitey" Lewis and "Dago" Frank Cirofici-of murdering Gambler Herman Rosenthal; of peritonitis; on the 21st anniversary of Becker's electrocution; in Passaic, N. J., where for 22 years he had managed a paper-box factory...
...blow its own horn but in view of past matches and on glancing through the records of past years, the meet will probably be, in the jargon of the trade, a "push over". The score of last year's encounter, though at the time there were ominous murmurs of "gyp" and "we wuz robbed" arising from the Lampoon contingent, was carefully checked by a firm of Boston accountants and found to be 23-2 in favor of the official undergraduate organ. Dr. Worcester's office later issued an unofficial statement attributing the victory to clean living and a paucity...
...Head of Gyp for three decades has been a suave, nimble-witted gentleman who today is more famed as the president-chairman of another and noncompetitive corporation. Montgomery Ward & Co. Gyp's Sewell Lee Avery was picked to pull the floundering mail-order house from its red depths. He did. Last year Ward earned $9,302,000 (11 mo.) as against a deficit of $8,712,000 in 1931. But Mr. Avery continues as Gyp's president, a fact which lets him in for unmerciful attacks from disaffected Ward stockholders. Once they cartooned Montgomery Ward...
Last week it was as Gyp's president that Sewell Lee Avery presided over a stockholders' meeting. Forthright as ever, he briskly challenged a few of the country's most cherished economic notions. It was shortsighted, said he, to think that the U. S. must embark upon a vast building program to restore prosperity. There was far too much building in the last period of prosperity. Home and industrial construction would pick up when & if business activity created a genuine demand for new quarters. What was more, any building revival was unlikely until both material prices...