Word: suckering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unforgettable exordiums of music, echoing, as it does, what might be called the elemental power of the ethos of sublimity . . ."). The Overture is scored for "a prodigious array of percussion, pitched and unpitched," including three rifles, three Hoover vacuum cleaners (two uprights in B-flat, one horizontal with detachable sucker in C) and one electric floor polisher (in E-flat...
...about time. For months SEC and the American Stock Exchange had been casting a suspicious eye on the trading in Sweet Grass, a favorite of the little speculator. Fortnight ago, Hearst Financial Columnist Leslie Gould listed it in his "Don't Be a Sucker" series as one of the hot items peddled over the counter by boiler shops using batteries of phones and sweet-talking salesmen. There were several reports that holders of big blocks of the stock were pushing it on over-the-counter brokers at 15% under the market price. On the American Exchange the stock became...
Freaks & Gaffs. Though the carny thinks it only just to fleece a sucker, he is rigidly honest with his own kind. If he needs money, he does not get a loan-he gets a "lift," and it is invariably repaid...
...results with a selective chemical designed to deal with the predatory eellike sea lamprey which has invaded the Great Lakes and almost exterminated the valuable lake trout (TIME, May 9). The lamprey, which bypassed Niagara Falls via the Welland Ship Canal, attaches itself to fish with a tooth-armed sucker and bores and sucks them to death. It has done so much damage to lake fisheries that the U.S. and Canada are spending large sums to cope with...
...established permanent floating crap game in New York" is about to sink. Its proprietor, one Nathan Detroit (Frank Sinatra), cannot raise the rent money for a suitably secluded backroom. Happens, however, he runs into Sky Masterson (Marlon Brando), a curly wolf at all games of chance, and lays the sucker a G he cannot make it to Havana, inside 24 hours, with a doll (Jean Simmons) named Sarah Brown, from the Save-A-Soul Mission...