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Examples
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Gees, "as Travers called the Gayety Girls, departed for Chicago, and
Cinderella And Other Stories Richard Harding Davis 1890
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The story of her first strip act — no matter how many of its details are invented — is true to the woman that Rose Louise Hovick became when she changed her name to Gypsy Rose Lee at the Gayety Theater in Toledo, Ohio, in 1931.
More Than a Girl With a Gimmick CARL ROLLYSON 2011
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At Castlereagh Street he turned to the left, and three blocks along came to the Gayety.
A PIECE OF STEAK 2010
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The secretary of the Gayety Club had advanced him three pounds — the loser's end of the purse — and beyond that had refused to go.
A PIECE OF STEAK 2010
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It was full two miles to the Gayety, and as he walked along he remembered how in his palmy days — he had once been the heavyweight champion of New South Wales — he would have ridden in a cab to the fight, and how, most likely, some heavy backer would have paid for the cab and ridden with him.
A PIECE OF STEAK 2010
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It was full two miles to the Gayety, and as he walked along he remembered how in his palmy days — he had once been the heavyweight champion of New South Wales — he would have ridden in a cab to the fight, and how, most likely, some heavy backer would have paid for the cab and ridden with him.
A PIECE OF STEAK 2010
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At Castlereagh Street he turned to the left, and three blocks along came to the Gayety.
A PIECE OF STEAK 2010
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Chapter 26 of "Gypsy: A Memoir" describes her family of starving, bedraggled vaudeville performers arriving at the Gayety Theater only to hear the show's producer telling the stage manager that the lead stripper has been jailed and no one is available to do her scenes.
More Than a Girl With a Gimmick CARL ROLLYSON 2011
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The secretary of the Gayety Club had advanced him three pounds — the loser's end of the purse — and beyond that had refused to go.
A PIECE OF STEAK 2010
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He is to fight Sandel at the Gayety Club in Sydney and his wife Lizzie says, You gotter do 'im ....
“Samuel! There was a rolling wonder in the sound. Ay, there was!” 2008
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