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Gussie

or Gus·sy

[ guhs-ee ]

noun

  1. a female given name, form of Augusta.


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In the 1970s, August Busch, III organized a successful boardroom coup against his father, Gussie.

She found Mary Perkins and her younger sister Gussie at home and she knew that poverty had not destroyed their kindly natures.

A window broken in the kitchen, and a wide-open sash had showed the exploring Gussie the means of ingress.

Gussie's smile, always so pronounced, spread across his gums till his face looked as if it were cut in two.

Where was Gussie, she asked; and showed relief and satisfaction when told he had gone to give notice of the affair to the police.

"It's only one of Gussie's storms in a tea-cup," responded Marjory, cheerfully.

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