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Word: gypped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1930
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Hero Chester Tattersall, unremarkable employe of a Manhattan telephone company suddenly finds himself rich through the demise of Uncle Marmaduke, surveying instrument tycoon. His first action is to take a "gyp" taxi (one charging more than the minimum fare) for a long ride. Then he rents an oversized apartment and proceeds to enjoy his life. The record of his adventures makes lively if not edifying reading, contains many a pungently satirical comment on U. S. urban and suburban life. Sometimes Authors Perelman and Reynolds call a spade by its trade name. Says a Manhattan newspaperman, complaining as is the custom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Aristocracy | 6/16/1930 | See Source »

...Gyp the Blood, famed killer of Gambler Rosenthal, was in Mike's public school class. Some of Mike's pals grew up to be rich; one of them became a gunman. Mike ends his own story at the point where he tired of selling papers and began to look for a job-not because he wanted to be rich (he hated capitalism) but to stay alive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ghetto | 2/24/1930 | See Source »

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