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Regardless of age, good slang always sounds new. "Chisel" is 100 years old. "Yellow streak" is as fresh today as when Christy Mathewson put it into the language 30 years ago. In the 1890's Conan Doyle used "Don't try to play me for a sucker...
Next day Cleveland's Frank Taplin, famed union mine operator who wants a U. M. W. code, called on Administrator Johnson, declared: "General, you're letting that gang of non-union Appalachian operators make a sucker out of you." Rapped back General Johnson: "You wouldn't think so if you knew what I told them yesterday...
...schemes: In no case was Lottie told just how many copies of The Missing Twin were to be issued. In the cases which Author & Journalist has investigated, 100 copies were usually bound, enough for the author and his or her friends. Average profit to the unscrupulous publisher: $200 per sucker...
...have proposed then to Henry Ford that together they endorse a $20,000,000 note to be used as R. F. C. collateral. Mr. Ford, maintaining that the R. F. C. should help out banks, not ask others to do so, refused. "Jim was trying to make a sucker out of me," he said. Furthermore he refused to subordinate his deposit to the R. F. C. President Hoover was reported to have telephoned Mr. Ford but failed to budge him from his position. A moratorium was the only...
Tracy: "A row of farmers is a circus man's rosary. . . . Never give a sucker an even break, 'cause it's dog eat dog all along the line. . . . For every kid that's born with a dollar there's twins born on the other side of the street aiming to take it away from him. ... So the only way to make a ten strike is to strike up the band. . . . Anyway, what the heck...