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Word: suckered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Nov. 6, 1950 | 11/6/1950 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICANA: The Mysterious Americans | 8/14/1950 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: How Odd of Todd | 7/17/1950 | See Source »

...conformist always looks like the man next to him. When in college, he dresses in grey flannels, tweed or seer-sucker jackets, and white bucks. His shirt is buttoned to the neck, and he would no more think of going without a tie than he would of wearing many-hued socks with a tailored suit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Men Preen Feathers As Females Snicker | 5/11/1950 | See Source »

...Franklin Delano Roosevelt, some unpublished correspondence between F.D.R. and the late William Allen White, philosopher-publisher of Emporia, Kans. One of the letters, which had contained a snapshot of F.D.R. in one of his favorite seersucker suits, began "Dear Bill: Here is the seersucker picture, duly inscribed by the sucker to the seer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Apr. 17, 1950 | 4/17/1950 | See Source »

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