Word: suckered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Reporter Brennan the book had been a matter of conscience ever since his nose for news told him that Jake the Barber had no B.O. Said he last week: "People are asking me why I am defending 'that gangster.' Look, here's a poor sucker who never had a chance to put his case before the public. I've got more personal satisfaction out of it than you can imagine...
...Without Looking. The situation has given rise to a dangerous new breed of editorial irresponsibility: the purchase of shows sight unseen. Last spring, Packager Don Sharpe sold Mr. Lucky to CBS; at the time he had neither cast nor pilot-only a script that was later discarded. Independents can sucker networks into financing even the shabbiest of productions. NBC spent $1,300,000 to bankroll 26 episodes of a dreary filmed comedy called Love and Marriage, managed to get some of its money back only by plopping the show into a favorable time (Mon., 8-8:30 p.m. E.S.T...
Suddenly Belle's husband, whom she had divorced for a poor sucker, turned out to be a rich sucker-he died and left her $150,000. Like a shot, Belle was off to Europe, and soon her madcap manners and her saucy wit had won her a place in the social whirl around the Prince of Wales, later Edward...
...expatriate American hero-heel, who tells this story in first-person flashback, has a code of sorts. He believes that arty ends justify ratty means. Setting up his easel on Rome's Spanish Steps, he sketches the pigeons until the inevitable tourist sucker expresses interest. Eventually, the painter cadges a meal at the Caffe Greco, or his rent money, or a small "loan" to tide him over till the next patron of the arts appears...
Sacred Mission. The central fact of Demara's life, according to Biographer Crichton, may be that he is a status sucker. He was eleven years old when his father, who owned movie houses in Lawrence, Mass., abruptly went broke. Kicked out of their mansion on Jackson Street, the Demaras landed in a shabby old carriage house on the wrong side of the gloomy old mill town. Fred hated poverty, with its stiff work boots and corduroy knickers, and he refused to face it. Every chance he got he sneaked back to the old house, sat in the attic...