Word: suckered
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...panel was the great grin of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. On the President's shoulder perched a vulture. In one hand the President held a fishing rod with a sucker on the line, in the other a bouquet of microphones. Mrs. Roosevelt stood beside him, her teeth and chin cruelly caricatured. The New Deal was represented by scattered playing cards?all deuces. Elliott Roosevelt and Anna Roosevelt Dall were seen tossing their respective spouses, portrayed as dolls, into a trash basket...
...sucker.... I never did so much in the market although I did do pretty well in the motion picture business. . . . My experience is that money made in speculation is negligible in amount when compared to the returns received by those who invest their money in gilt-edged securities and hold on to them...
Other oil-rich Indians squandered their money on grand pianos and limousines. But Jackson Barnett continued living on $50 a month. He was on every "sucker list" in the land and untold sharpers tried to victimize him but he understood too little to fall for their blandishments. During the War his guardian invested $1,400,000 of his money in Liberty Bonds. By 1920 he was worth probably $4,000,000. The Commissioner of Indian Affairs let him give $25,000 each to seven local churches. $400,000 for missionary work and $1,000,000 to found an Indian hospital...
After two minutes in the second half, Merry finally sank a sucker shot and ended 13 minutes of scoreless playing for Harvard. The Crimson had difficulty in finding the basket and failed to follow up when opportunities were offered...
...Manhattan. His "information" was good and he often sold 5,000 tips a day at $5 each. Having a great love for the horses and no faith in his own tips, he soon dropped the $3,000,000 he had so quickly acquired. But he learned enough about sucker psychology to follow his true calling. And it was not long before he was rated the most successful and the most tireless stock swindler...