gin game

[George Thompson]

> If the handwriting is scrawly enough, it may be "con game," which
> sounds a
> little weird in the context now but I think didn't in 1909.
>
> JL
>

A good thought.

GAT

George A. Thompson
Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern Univ. Pr., 1998, but nothing much lately.

----- Original Message -----
From: Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
Date: Friday, January 8, 2010 5:54 pm
Subject: Re: gin game
To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU

> If the handwriting is scrawly enough, it may be "con game," which
> sounds a
> little weird in the context now but I think didn't in 1909.
>
> JL
>
> On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 4:51 PM, George Thompson <george.thompson at nyu.edu>wrote:
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> > From an article in today's NYTimes, section C, p. 33, headlined
> "Navy Yard
> > 'Treasures'", about an archive and museum at the (former) Brooklyn Navy
> > Yard.
> >
> > "The archive has also received a 1909 postcard showing the yard paymaster's
> > house; on the back an enraged shipyard worker scrawled to his girlfriend,
> > "What kind of a gin game you giving me, taking me for a damn fool?""
> >
> > not in HDAS; app. not in OED; not in Chambers Slang Dictionary.
> >
> > GAT
> >
> > George A. Thompson
> > Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern
> > Univ. Pr., 1998, but nothing much lately.
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