Word: sucker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...slickers who follow the trade have developed a lingo all their own. One who points the game is a bird dog. The prospect is a sucker or a mooch. An advance man who attracts the mooch is a bell cow. The man who makes the sale is a loader. The smoothie who takes the sucker a second time is the reloader. Foxes are those who sell by mail; the dynamiter works by telephone. An argument for a difficult prospect is the Russian Injection...
Kentuckians know Alben William Barkley, 66, as the poor tobacco farmer's son who rose to represent them in Washington longer (31 years) than any other man. He was born in a log cabin deep in the backwoods of western Kentucky, where "one-sucker" tobacco (black, heavy-leaf) is the crop. To earn his way into Georgia's tiny Emory College, he rode through the hills on a black horse, peddling kitchen utensils from the saddlebag; at the University of Virginia Law School he janitored and waited table. His first law job was in the office of Paducah...
...question was not a matter of dollars & cents. Many a returning traveler echoed Hugh Butler's contention that the U.S. was regarded as a sucker, south of the border. What the U.S. was still waiting to see was an able documenting of the ineptitude with which the U.S. spent its Latin American dollars, if only to serve as a guide to an intelligent and effective future policy...
...antiwar-emasculated it. They wanted no Army. They thought that war could be stopped. Their propaganda appealed to a war-sick nation. That propaganda was still going strong in 1940. "World Peace-ways Inc." spread its poster ads through the U.S. press: pictures of a maimed veteran captioned "Hello, Sucker," of a chemist bending over a fiendish brew...
...TIME for the courage of those who nowadays set out to serve their country in the Merchant Marine. Their dangers and their hardships are all the more notable because largely unsung. The fact that (begging the Captain's pardon) the trainees do jokingly greet one another as "slacker," "sucker" and "profiteer" is, so far as TIME is concerned, not evidence of their seeking a refuge from danger but of their good tough morale. In so far as the story in question gave any other impression, it was a very bad story indeed...