Word: gyp
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While Nome Burns. When they finally get inside, audiences see a three-hour spectacle-roughly two-thirds movie and one-third stage show-that is anything but just another overpromoted metropolitan gyp. The customers are paying for spectacorn, and the Music Hall stage is equipped to give it to them 144 ft. wide and 67 ft. deep. The organ, with 375 stop tablets, can sound like everything from a Chinese gong to a glockenspiel, and vibrates so profoundly that it probably shows up on seismographs in the Soviet Union. The fixed lighting system, with a 4,3O5-key control board...
...short, Brimingham does not know of what he talks. His book is inaccurate, incomplete, and boring. It's a gyp. Don't buy it, and tell your friends not to, either...
...Conference on Public Deception, attended by representatives of 47 civic, professional and business organizations. FTC Chairman Earl W. Kintner said the commission would go all out to open its voluminous files on "trickery in the marketplace" to public view. "In the blunt language of the street," he said, "the gyp seller depends on the sucker buyer and can't exist without...
From the remarks of the conference speakers, there are still many sucker buyers to make life easy and profitable for gyp sellers. The outstanding forms of pocketbook piracy are still 1) "bait-and-switch advertising," i.e., luring the customer into the store with a ridiculously underpriced item, then persuading him to change to an expensive one; 2) high, fictitious list prices that are tagged on merchandise to make a customer think he is getting a bargain by a "price...
...morning, when father was on early shift at the mine, and it would end in the night some time. Never can I remember her resting, except that once in a while she would be bothered by a sort of rheumatism. 'Oh, Henry lad. This shoulder is giving me gyp today,' she'd say, and ask me to rub the aching place with some oils she'd evolved herself...