Word: suckers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There can be no resisting the P. T. Barnum quote about a sucker being born every minute unquote: panned by even the most sugary-sweet of Boston's drama critics, a cheap-and not even bawdy-play starring a girl with exaggerated features is filling the Wilbur quite comfortably this week...
There was no fuss or picketing. The mighty U.M.W., long since as disciplined as a squad of marines, needed only a flick of John L. Lewis' shaggy black brows. In 23 states, 400,000 miners simply stayed home to spade their gardens, wet a line in a good sucker stream or sit back and warm a well-calloused toe on the kitchen stove. Mine operators sent all but a skeleton force of supervisors home...
...paws on most of the nation's junk yards, nothing talks but money, and nothing whatever talks back. But in slugging Harry, Playwright Kanin has saved his fists and relied on his funnybone. His menacing robber baron is also a slob and eventually a sucker...
when one partner [Britain] says, 'Well, of all the dirty tricks . . .' and the other [the U.S.] says, 'What do you take me for, a sucker...
...special brand of American who inhabited North Africa, France, Italy, Germany, Guadalcanal, Saipan, Okinawa, Luzon, Burma, China, Iceland, India, Korea, Japan and other places, from 1941 to 1945 . . . swears in good style, likes pretty girls, milk, steak, beer, cheesecake and swing music, and is a sucker for a place called the U.S. . . . hates Japs, Germans, C rations and draft dodgers...