Word: suckering
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...BARNUM is perhaps best known to the American people for his statistics on the birth rate of the American sucker, but in his autobiography he sedulously avoids the attitude expressed in his famous aphorism. Rather does he paint himself, in loose, easy sentences stuffed with first personal pronouns, as a man with a mission...
...Diamond Jim" Brady, echoing P. T. Barnum, claims that there is no such fun as being a sucker, if you can afford it. $2,000,000 rewarded the night clubs of New York New Year's Eve for allowing out of town guests to be suckers. At one club it cost a couple eighty dollars to sit down...
...gull-baiting. He bought full page space in newspapers and thereby gold-knuckled editorial prudence. He called himself a specialist and offered to treat "deafness, head noises from nasal catarrh," and only the American Medical Association objected. Such full page advertisements have become his chief means, with his "sucker list," of exploitation.* Quick flipping of newspaper files show that from January to April of this year he used full page spreads in at least the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, New Haven Evening Register, Boston Sunday Advertiser, Peoria (Ill.) Star, Denver Rocky Mountain News, Cleveland Press, Topeka (Kans.) Daily State Journal...
When Harold ("Red") Grange first began to romp under the managerial eye of C. C. ("Cold-cash") Pyle, and U. S. suspected that. Mr. Pyle was a sucker. Later, when professional football showed signs of success they realized that Mr. Pyle was a businessman. Then Suzanne Lenglen, French tennis ace, turned professional, along with other tennis notables. People thought that Mr. Pyle showed acumen. Until last week, however, few knew that Mr. Pyle was likewise a dramatist. The scene was the great dining hall of the steamship Paris, ablaze with lights, aglow with chatter of sporting bigwigs. William Hanford...
...blowed-up sucker...