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Word: gyp (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...comported herself in the ring. But Flornell Spicy Bit of Halleston did not win their hearts until, at the very moment when Judge Jarrett was naming her U. S. Dog of the Year, she slipped her leash and frisked across the ring as saucily as though her name were Gyp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Dog Show | 2/26/1934 | See Source »

...funny thing yesterday. You know the taxis have been having some fun. Well, two of them were out here waiting. The second one thought he could gyp in ahead of the first; so he cut in. The other backed up to let him get to the curb. They were both next to the curb when the one in back got up full steam and crashed into the other. This one backed right back at him and this process went on until finally both got out and started using their fists. In the meantime three other taxis had received leads...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Vallee is a Swell Fellow Despite Trouble in Paradise," Says Jovial Radio City Doorman | 2/14/1934 | See Source »

...citizens learn how to be authors, I have read with great interest your quotation from the Author & Journalist in your April 17 issue, which you entitled "Drivel Racket." I know the author of the article you quoted and can vouch for his complete sincerity in his exposure of the gyp games in the literary instruction field...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 1, 1933 | 5/1/1933 | See Source »

...reason why most of the literary instruction gyp games are not wiped out is because it takes either an expert or someone who has been stung to see where the gyp is. Evidently federal postal authorities never write fiction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 1, 1933 | 5/1/1933 | See Source »

...dull, as in Vicki Baum's kaleidoscopic Grand Hotel. Mae Clarke is a square-shooting chorus girl who talks like a Girl Scout. She pities a young patron (Lew Ayres) who is the scion of a famed murder case and drinks to forget. Young love burgeons while gyp and doublecross are rampant all around, practiced by the proprietor (Boris Kar-loff), his wife (Dorothy Revier), her lover, the guests and Lew Ayres's mother (Hedda Hopper). Besides the burgeoning juveniles, only an honest policeman (Robert Emmett O'Connor) and a ratiocinative Negro doorman stay sweet & simple. While...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Pictures: Jun. 6, 1932 | 6/6/1932 | See Source »

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