Word: dupes
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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...
...Expelled from Roumania last week because the authorities at Bucharest deemed his despatches "insulting to the Crown and Government." Numerous U. S. newspapers rallied to the Times, joined the New York World in editorially flaying the Roumanian Administration as "a government which uses the King as a dupe (TIME, Feb. 15), flimflams a Crown Prince out of his throne (TIME, Jan. 11), strong-arms elections and rules for the exclusive benefit of a reactionary minority...