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...Gyp Joint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 1, 1926 | 3/1/1926 | See Source »

...firm, using the same office suite but with entrances on different streets to divert suspicion, an oldtime quack stunt. Old Doc Embry uses the same method?"Dr. Embry" on the door of a squalid office for Negroes, "The Parker Health Institute" on a communicating office door for whites. His gyp game is to thrill and mystify the patient by the intimated cure-all powers of the Xray. His staff found the Tribune man very ill, but curable for $90, $20 down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chicago v. Quacks | 2/15/1926 | See Source »

Near St. Mark's is Luchow's restaurant. Last week it was the scene of a great dinner-mock turtle soup, roast chicken, ice cream. Among the diners, besides Bishop Manning and several judges, were "The Millionaire Kid," "Sam the Scratcher," "Hotel Bill," "Little Gyp" and their friends. They are members of the Marshall Stillman Movement-all of them bad men and bad women who, in spite of having gone to prison, have decided to go straight. They presented the Bishop with $100, every dime of which had been collected from people whose Vater-land had once been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Cross Bones | 6/23/1924 | See Source »

...filled with the dirt removed from the ten thousand graves occupied each year by murderers and their victims; and also whether the knives and bullets extracted from the deceased would, if melted up in a large brass cauldron, be numerous enough to east into a life size status of Gyp the Hloon, to be placed at the entrance to Murder Alley...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE DEADLY STATISTIC | 4/1/1924 | See Source »

Lampy's annual winter competitions in Drawing, Writing, and Business will start Wednesday evening at 7 o'clock. Only the most intellectual and talented candidates need report at the Lampoon Building at that time. In other words, Gyp the Blood, Perley Spiker, and the Kaiser are among those eligible to compete. Freshmen and Sophomores are wanted for the business end, while drawing and writing aspirants from every class except Senior are desired...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEED FUNNY MEN FOR LAMPOON | 2/10/1920 | See Source »

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