Word: suckered
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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...
...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...
...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...
...Franklin Delano Roosevelt, some unpublished correspondence between F.D.R. and the late William Allen White, philosopher-publisher of Emporia, Kans.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...