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  • We are for ever being reminded that Gussy is the Honourable Arthur A. D’Arcy, son of Lord Eastwood, that Jack Blake is heir to ‘broad acres’, that Hurree Jamset Ram Singh (nicknamed Inky) is the Nabob of Bhanipur, that Vernon-Smith’s father is a millionaire.

    Boys' Weeklies 1940

  • Like everything else in the Gem and Magnet, Gussy is at least thirty years out of date.

    Boys' Weeklies 1940

  • During my sophomore year, for example, I worked sixty hours a week at a luncheonette called Gussy’s, just off the Rutgers campus.

    Rogue Warrior Marcinko, Richard 1992

  • Canada's very own Jeff "Gussy" Gustafson and other Pro Staff to engineer the Frabill All

    ChicagoNow 2010

  • "Gussy," he said loudly, "I am happy to inform you that all your fears about Tickler are so much thistledown.

    The Creature from Cleveland Depths Fritz Leiber 1951

  • "Gussy," Fay said wearily, frowning, "all sorts of things nowadays have S&DM elements.

    The Creature from Cleveland Depths Fritz Leiber 1951

  • Other regular spots include Uncle Gussy on 51st and Park (good white sauce) and XPL on Park and 48th (best quality generic gyro meat).

    PROFILE: Midtown Lunch’er “Eric” | Midtown Lunch - Finding Lunch in the Food Wasteland of NYC's Midtown Manhattan 2010

  • Why is it, Gussy, that the people you love the most hurt you the hardest?

    The Hanging Tree Bryan Gruley 2010

  • I was ten steps out the door when I heard her call after me: “Gussy.”

    The Hanging Tree Bryan Gruley 2010

  • Gussy up this hanging Ikea lamp with a little fun, great for a kid's room or playroom.

    Archive 2008-02-01 2008

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