Word: sucker
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...register, the gangsters of 1951 are no kin to Damon Runyon's Harry the Horse. They have taken the business risk out of gambling by making it big. They look on their eager customers with the contempt of a sure-thing businessman for the fellow who throws around sucker money...
...garage, a few days before he left, he found a brand-new car in place of his wobbly old one. When he refused it with regrets, Punch said: "Boss, I hate to say this to you, but I'm afraid you'll always be a sucker...
...pilot in England he took time off between bombing runs to murder his wife's lover). This tragedy has somehow reduced him to running a Chicago handbook that is always being raided by the police. In desperation, Heston turns card sharper and, with two cronies, fleeces a sucker of $5,000. The sucker commits suicide, leaving behind a wife and child as well as a maniacal brother who sets out to eliminate the gamblers. He throttles two of them and has a lethal half nelson on Heston before the police intervene...
...working at it, the hotel donated his room, the Wide-A-Wake Cafe his board. For treating him, two doctors got free passes to the show. Then Morrison left town, and Bohn's United Circus never showed. But Wetumka decided to have a celebration, anyway. It declared a "Sucker Day," during which Boy Scouts will serve the 100 Ibs. of hot dogs from booths in the middle of Main Street. Said the grocer who bought them: "That guy sure could talk...
...still don't know who is the sucker-Todd or his public ... All I can report is that Peep Show made me feel cheap-and if this piece is another good box-office notice I shall feel cheaper still...