Word: duped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...respectable magazine like TIME should not become the dupe of foreign propagandists...
...headlines was that all the time Charles Augustus Lindbergh was supposedly hobnobbing with Nazis in Berlin, and tattling on Soviet Russia to friends of Nazis in Great Britain,* he was actually functioning as a sort of U. S. spy abroad; that instead of letting Messrs. Hitler, Goebbels, et al. dupe him, he was making fools of them for the benefit of world Democracy...
...panhandling is not virtuous; indeed, it is destructive and therefore evil. In view of the Harvard man's sophistication and supposed intelligence, it is ridiculous that he be regarded by professional beggars in this neighborhood as being the biggest sucker. Will you begin your career here by becoming the dupe of trained sympathy-provokers...
...democracy," recalled the democratic reputation of His Royal Highness when he was Prince of Wales and "Britain's Goodwill Ambassador" and criticized the Administration for "snubbing the Duke thus far." The remaining letters called Mr. Bedaux such things as a Fascist blood sucker, identified the Duke as his dupe and indicated that to the irate writers the Duchess will always be Mrs. Simpson...
...this play Mr. Cohan is the "Dear Old Darling," of course, but what that title really means is "Dear Old Dupe." The precedent of "Kind Lady" is carried on, and the entire plot of the present production is concerned with the machinations of a slippery clan of genteel racketeers. For the first three of the five scenes, however, the craft is coverered by the show, and the flattering challenge is issued to discern the infernal workings under the velvet cloth...