Word: suckering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...less impressed with the story told by Academy Award Winner Jose (Cyrano de Bergerac) Ferrer. He stoutly denied that he had ever been a Communist or had ever had the least sympathy with party aims. He was, explained Ferrer, just a sucker for high-sounding left-wing groups...
...comment on the story, Editor Lacerda wrote: "On the day on which Perón announced the discovery of this scientist, we stated we thought he was lying, but we never thought Perón himself was being fooled. General Perón, it turns out, was the otario [sucker] . . . Thus closes in international ridicule a chapter which Charlie Chaplin could well have used in his satire, 'The Great Dictator...
With the main feature, Ivy will show its latest production "Much Ado About Studying." It will also show a sequence from "Never Give a Sucker an Even Break" with W. C. Fields and a color movie about Paris...
...register, the gangsters of 1951 are no kin to Damon Runyon's Harry the Horse. They have taken the business risk out of gambling by making it big. They look on their eager customers with the contempt of a sure-thing businessman for the fellow who throws around sucker money...
...garage, a few days before he left, he found a brand-new car in place of his wobbly old one. When he refused it with regrets, Punch said: "Boss, I hate to say this to you, but I'm afraid you'll always be a sucker...