Word: suckered
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...Shear Sucker. At Bryants Pond, Me., Farmer Claude Cushman, who had sheared his flock during a warm spell, had to run around to the neighbors when the temperature dropped again, collect all cast-off sweaters that he could find for his shivering sheep...
...would give top priority to the opinions of U.S. fighting men. He said he had already received a large batch of G.I. mail. He summed up the soldiers' opinions: "They are for an international organization, with the U.S. participating. But they very definitely do not want an international sucker made out of Uncle Sam. They want us to negotiate with our eyes open...
Said he: "No one will believe me when I tell this. . . . I'll be called a sucker who fell for another corny script...
...Sucker's game or not, thousands of betters are playing it for all they are worth. For such places as Sammy Wolf's cigar store and betting commission house on North Clark Street near the river, Chicago's busiest betting spot, it is a post-racing bonanza. The average Saturday night handle at Sammy's runs about $100,000. On one side of the shop is a Western Union ticker machine, its burden of basketball, hockey and fight results magnified on a moving screen. On the opposite side, half-time and final basketball results are chalked...
...Then from Santa Barbara, Calif., came a report that soldiers resented it, thought it patronizing. Hearst Columnist Damon Runyon gave his old-soldier version of the name: "For over 40 years a Joe has meant a Jasper, a Joskin, a yokel, a hey-rube, a hick, a clodhopper, a sucker." Runyon remembered that in the last war G.I. (i.e., "government issue") meant "the big galvanized iron garbage and ash can in the back of each company barracks...