Word: impoverishes
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Dates: during 1972-1972
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...lost all his money at cards. Meanwhile, the town's mayor receives words that an inspector general, travelling incognito, is to pay a surprise visit to the town, where he will inevitably discover all of the pecadillos and greater sins the administrators have made habitual. The officials mistake the impoverish Khlestakov for the Inspector General, and he is wined, dined, and "lost" money (the officials leading it think that they are bribing him to ignore their corruption). When he decides he must leave temporarily, he is given the best coach and fastest horses in town...