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Last week the last Pollier corporation was found to possess only a rented office, some hired furniture and not a sou in the bank. Friends of Professor Pollier sent bouquets and potted flowers to brighten his cell, declared that he is innocent, the mere dupe of a master swindler in London, one "Michael Neutski, a Russian...
Years later the Cesarevitch actually was born, a sickly child, victim of an hereditary disease in Alexandra's family. Again the harassed Empress resorted to religion, and Rasputin, notorious mendicant, promised a cure. In gratitude, Alexandra fell completely under the spell of this man-she was his dupe, and he in turn the dupe of countless office-seekers, climbers, charlatans...
...minister to England, a poker expert, taught the game to British peers, started a fad), his policies pathetic; but grimly he stuck to both. Scandals rivaling Teapot Dome culminated in the gold corner by Gould and Fisk, shrewd rascals who dazzled Grant with their powerful wealth, involved the honest dupe in fiasco...
...making the true characters live." Marie Antoinette was a lovely martyr in white dimity and ash-gold hair; Louis, her royal spouse, a wistful dullard who would have made an honest artisan. The worldly cardinal who passionately loved Antoinette nevertheless caused her miserable downfall because he was the dupe of a scheming court slut. This clever minx stole the necklace, implicated the queen in the scandal, but herself rode screaming and scratching to the Bastille...
With the marriage of the Tsaritsa's son to a German princess and his ascension as Nicholas II, the life of Maria Feodorovna entered its final and increasingly tragic stage. In vain she strove to prevent the Last of the Tsars, her son, from becoming the dupe of Rasputin and his other degenerate councilors. Once she said to him, "Come