Can anyone help---(I'm sure this has come up before but I
can't find it
in the rara-avis archives)---I've been asked what are the
'stuss games'
Polhaus refers to in his resume of Thursby's career:
"Well, he was a St. Louis gunman the first we hear of
him.=20
He was picked up a lot of times back there for this and
that,=20
but he belonged to the Egan mob, so nothing much was ever
done=20
about any of it. I don't know howcome he left that shelter,
but=20
they got him once in New York for knocking over a row
of=20
stuss-games=97his twist turned him up=97and he was in a year
before=20
Fallon got him sprung." (Modern Library Edition,
p.72)=20
Advice appreciated,
TIA,
Eddie Duggan
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