Word: dupee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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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
Soon Rapscallion Alvarez was specifically charged with furthering the smugglery of $250,000 worth of silk into Mexico. In rebuttal he declared under oath to a high police official: "I deny any knowledge of this affair. I have been made the dupe of others...
Presently detectives swooped, arrested the Signorina Maria Conesa, Spanish danseuse, toast of Mexican boulevardeurs, able duper of many a dupe...
...busy putting $800,000 of his currency into circulation. Prominent among his outlets were the Birger and Shelton gangs whose activities (TIME, Feb. 21) have heightened the ill-fame of Williamson and Herrin counties, Illinois. Birgers and Sheltons, feuding cutthroats, machine-gunners, hijackers, in their liquor deals, used to dupe each other and be duped by Mr. Mayes's money...
...States into the war is based on the assumption that British propaganda alone accomplished it. Attention is directed more to violations of our neutrality by England than by Germany. There is no reference to German propaganda and sabotage, and no mention of the Zimmerman telegram. We appear as the dupe of the Allies...