Word: sucker
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Into the record went a list-a "sucker list," Wisconsin's Blaine called it-of last year's contributors to this joint lobby fund. Samples...
...Hello Sucker! Pin back your ears and get a load of the next week's news: Sex, murder, sin, off and on will make you grab those straps on the 8:20 subway tighter and tighter. We aim to thrill, flatter, and admire, so cluster around with the money wide, high, and handsome...
...club-the El Fay. An El Fay waiter sold a bottle to a customer with a badge and the club was given a padlock and a front-page story. In a new club Hostess Guinan continued to greet her friends with "Hello, Johnny" and her paying clients with "Hello, sucker."; Keeping her ebullience corsetable with a diet of broccoli and orange juice, she shouts "Pull up your water wings" whenever somebody upsets a bottle and "Give this little girl a hand" when her well disciplined revue girls perform. Recurring padlocks merely furnished publicity for the launching of new Guinan clubs...
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...Wolf of Wall Street. Suspecting, probably correctly, that film audiences may not know much about the technique of the stockmarket, Paramount has kept as simple as possible this story about the big trader who is a sucker in love. The Wolf explains stratagems to his partners with a blackboard and pointer in a way that can be understood by anyone who can cut out a paper doll. That this will bore persons familiar with Wall Street methods is unlikely, however, for Mrs. Wolf's infidelities are effectively and seductively acted by Olga Baclanova. Best shot : Miss Baclanova biting...