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Veronica Lake, as a still more astute businesswoman, hires and rehearses the bobby-soxers who screech and faint him into fame, and gyps everyone in sight.

From Time Magazine Archive

Many of these tax-supported agencies have been increasingly effective in guarding the public against television-repair gyps, cheating furniture dealers, heavy-thumbed butchers and other unscrupulous businessmen.

From Time Magazine Archive

Diana Lynn, as the boss of a female swing band, gyps him out of his heart and most of his fortune.

From Time Magazine Archive

Happy gyps her out of her winnings at the crap table, hurries on with his insolvent boys to Schultz's Copacabana, in Brooklyn.

From Time Magazine Archive

When Major Rodger had officially apprised the Colonel of his glorious victory, gyps and re-inforcements were immediately despatched to assist in the holding of the acquired position.

From The Siege of Kimberley by Phelan, T.