| 词条 | Draft:Patsy |
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A victim of deceptionThe popularity of the name has waned with the rise of its, chiefly North American,[1] meaning as "dupe" or "scapegoat". Fact, Fancy and Fable, published in 1889, notes that in a sketch performed in Boston 'about twenty years ago' a character would repeatedly ask ‘Who did that?’ and the answer was ‘Patsy Bolivar!’.[2] It may have been popularized by the vaudevillian Billy B. Van, whose 1890s character, Patsy Bolivar, was more often than not an innocent victim of unscrupulous or nefarious characters.[3] Van's character became a broad vaudeville "type," imitated by many comedians including Fred Allen who later wrote, "Patsy Bolivar was a slang name applied to a bumpkin character; later, it was shortened to Patsy, and referred to any person who was the butt of a joke."[4] Lee Harvey Oswald, after assassinating president John Kennedy, denied he was responsible for the murder, and stated: "No, they are taking me in because of the fact that I lived in the Soviet Union. I'm just a patsy!"[5][6]Byron Smith, after killing Haile Kifer, and her cousin, Nicholas Brady, in self defense, also claimed he was a patsy.[7] References1. ^{{cite news|authors=Soanes, Catherine & Stevenson, Angus (ed.) |date=2005| work=Oxford Dictionary of English|edition= 2nd revised|title=Patsy|publisher= Oxford University Press|location= Oxford, New York|page=1291|isbn=978-0-19-861057-1}} 2. ^{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=s-G_VVq2A-kC&pg=PA275|title=Balderdash & Piffle|last=Games|first=Alex|publisher=Random House|year=2010|isbn=9781446415054|location=|pages=275}} 3. ^{{cite web|title=Patsy|url=http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=patsy|website=Online Etymology Dictionary|accessdate=7 August 2016}} 4. ^{{cite book|author=Bader, Robert S.|title= Four of the Three Musketeers: The Marx Brothers On Stage|publisher= Northwestern University Press|date= 2016|page= 103}} 5. ^{{Cite news|url=http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/oswald/|title=Oswald's Ghost |work= American Experience |publisher=PBS|language=en|access-date=2018-05-13}} 6. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/26/us/jfk-assassination.html|title=A J.F.K. Assassination Glossary: Key Figures and Theories|date=October 26, 2017|work=The New York Times|access-date=2018-05-13|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}} 7. ^{{Cite web|url=http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1405/02/ng.01.html|website=CNN.com |title= Transcripts|language=en|access-date=2018-07-15}} |
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