Word: sucker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...turning over to a warring power a goodly portion of the United States Navy. . . . We get in exchange leases on British possessions in this Hemisphere-but only leases. What good will these leases be if Hitler should acquire title to these islands by right of conquest? ... Of all sucker real-estate deals in history, this is the worst, and the President of the United States is the sucker. ... If Roosevelt gets away with this, we may as well say good-by to our liberties and make up our mind that henceforth we live under a dictatorship...
Julia "will do anything-fight a man, curse a teacher, or kiss a boy in the schoolyard." But she is sexually scared and she quit her husband as soon as she learned that her supposed pregnancy was only a stomachache. A golddigger, she says: "When you get a sucker, bump his head.'' Of white folks: "I hate white people. I just like to beat on white people...
...Japanese bridled. "If the British take Japan for a sucker," warned Asahi in the wrong national idiom, "they will find it is their own necks they are stretching out." Two more Britons were arrested. Foreign Office Spokesman Yakichiro Suma rejected the British protest. The Cabinet issued its program, which revolved around a new but strangely reminiscent phrase: Greater East Asia (incorporating Indo-China, The Netherlands Indies, possibly Burma, in Japan's sphere of action). Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka warned: "The Japanese Government is through with toadying...
...little more prosperous than his neighbors, is afraid of being thought a showoff. Talkative and genial, he walks with the swivel-hipped, bowlegged, rolling gait of a cowboy, wears his heart on his sleeve, tells his most intimate business to anybody who happens to be around. A sure sucker for any kind of financial venture, he has lost enough money on bogus oil stock to keep many of his neighbors in beans for a lifetime...
American Speech, linguists' quarterly, reported that "grifters" (tank-town confidence men) describe a sucker as a "willing winchell." Retorted Walter Winchell (in absentia): "Probably because some unsuspecting namesake once was such an easy mark...