Word: sucker
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When Harold ("Red") Grange first began to romp under the managerial eye of C. C. ("Cold-cash") Pyle, and U. S. suspected that. Mr. Pyle was a sucker. Later, when professional football showed signs of success they realized that Mr. Pyle was a businessman. Then Suzanne Lenglen, French tennis ace, turned professional, along with other tennis notables. People thought that Mr. Pyle showed acumen. Until last week, however, few knew that Mr. Pyle was likewise a dramatist. The scene was the great dining hall of the steamship Paris, ablaze with lights, aglow with chatter of sporting bigwigs. William Hanford...
When Jim Ferguson heard that Moody had accepted the challenge, he threw up his hands and ejaculated: "Dan is a blowed-up sucker and a gone fawnskin...
...blowed-up sucker...
...pessimistic. Some, if not all business will sprout sturdily in spite of this golden cloud-burst, and there seems small doubt that among the lost arts revived will be those of taking down shutters, giving short change, punching time-clocks, dressing windows, reading ticker-tape and compiling sucker-lists...
...sleeping or card-playing through class hours. The chance for contact between student and instructor is so slight that any communication between them is of a cold, telegraphic variety. When a student does take the trouble to try to know his instructor better, he is generally regarded as a "sucker...