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When Jim Ferguson heard that Moody had accepted the challenge, he threw up his hands and ejaculated: "Dan is a blowed-up sucker and a gone fawnskin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: In Texas | 6/7/1926 | See Source »

...pessimistic. Some, if not all business will sprout sturdily in spite of this golden cloud-burst, and there seems small doubt that among the lost arts revived will be those of taking down shutters, giving short change, punching time-clocks, dressing windows, reading ticker-tape and compiling sucker-lists...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEW REPUBLIC SUGGESTS ISSUING PIGSKIN PREFERRED ON FOOTBALL AS A BUSINESS | 10/28/1925 | See Source »

...sleeping or card-playing through class hours. The chance for contact between student and instructor is so slight that any communication between them is of a cold, telegraphic variety. When a student does take the trouble to try to know his instructor better, he is generally regarded as a "sucker...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication | 11/19/1924 | See Source »

...first appeal was to British investors and led to a controversy with Premier MacDonald, who referred to his activities as a "disgraceful blot" (TIME, June 9). Apparently British contributors were not forthcoming. But Sir Brodrick is not easily discouraged. His next appeal was made to Americans. He obtained a "sucker list" and mailed a glowing prospectus to the names upon it, which, under the title of "The problem of liquor and the so-called smuggling of liquor into the United States," speaks of "money made and to be made" in the traffic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Commodore of Rum Row | 6/16/1924 | See Source »

...Denying a report that he had struck Babe Ruth the night that Jack struck Firpo, Johnny Dempsey (brother) said: " Why, Babe and I are good friends! Then again, the Babe is a big fellow. Why, I'd be a sucker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Boxing | 10/8/1923 | See Source »

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