Word: suckers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...adventure magazines, read everything from Kipling to Marcus Aurelius. Coming into Bremerton Navy Yard on April 6, 1917, having known since the Baton Rouge left Mexico that war was not far off, Rex had already got himself straight about his own part in it. Uncle Sam was "Uncle Sucker." From now on you only pretended the Allies were in the right, and killed and got killed automatically; forgot that in foreign bars U. S. sailors always fought on the German side. By the time the Baton Rouge was put in shape for war service Rex had conquered an aloof Bremerton...
Fortnight ago one of the country judges sitting in Cook County's Circuit Court (TIME, April 26), Joseph E. Daily of Peoria, ruled that the marriage was valid in such a way as to cause many a Hoosier and Sucker (Illinoisan) couple to raise their eyebrows. Ruled...
...gracefully and how much more gracefully they did them way back then. Then we seemed to progress only and never discovered anything new, and what we did discover was apt to boomerang back on us any minute like instant communication and aeroplanes and T.N.T. That anybody was a sucker to be optimistic like Browning. That science was merely building up to a great big let-down when came the Jeansian Millenium, that everything new that came out was a new responsibility and made us more surely and completely serfs than our ancestors (probably) had been...
...free & easy manner. Of the same opinion, merchants of every variety had flooded the mails with circulars, kept their stores wide open at night. Get-rich-quick promoters lay anxiously in wait for what Frank Brock of the New York Better Business Bureau described as "the biggest potential sucker list of all times...
...Fields has had time to execute several of his most celebrated routines. He gets tangled up with a croquet set, makes a fox-terrier talk, sells five bottles of sassafras tonic to a distracted yokel who wants only one, delivers as a tagline the immortal motto: "Never give a sucker an even break...