Word: canard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...canard that "a mysterious letter by which her Founder-Father willed her his throne" was to be presented by Miss Booth at the High Council is, of course, ridiculous. William Booth exercised his legal right and named his son Bramwell Booth to succeed him. Having done that he had no further power of controlling the succession. William Booth died in 1912, the only General of The Salvation Army who had the power of nominating his successor. Evangeline Booth was duly elected General by the legally constituted body deriving its authority from the Act passed in the British Parliament...
...this stratagem: In a Memphis burlesque theatre he announced that during the 1927 flood Herbert Hoover got off a train at Mound Bayou, Miss. and danced on the station platform with a Negro woman. George Akerson, Hoover's aide-de-camp, had a hard time refuting this canard without offending either white or black voters. "It was just like asking old High-Collar Herbert if he had quit beating his wife." chuckled Statesman Bilbo. "He couldn't say yes and he couldn...
Most other British papers referred to "a higher personage" or to "The Crown." Stoutly the Morning Post headlined UNITED STATES INQUIRY CANARD, suppressed no detail, contemptuously observed, "We publish this incredible story as illustrating the sort of evidence which was thought good enough for a Senatorial enquiry...
...Apostasy, he was never afraid to inform the church of her danger, and in the face of ridicule and hostility, his superb moral courage showed that he feared God more than he feared man. The last cowardly slur with which an ungrateful America besmirched his memory was the canard that he died from overeating. Mr. Bryan was crucified by a loose-moraled Christian citizenship and a false religious leadership...
...apparently full of eggs was really half empty! But it would undoubtedly be infra-dig for Scotland Yard or the Surete Generale even to entertain such a simple explanation! By the way, TIME in its article on L'Affaire d'Espionnage, March 26. repeats another old canard by saying that my father "Theodore Switz [was] a naturalized Russian." Actually my father was born in Madison. Wis. (U. S. A.) in 1857. His parents were Germans, not Russians. . . . THEODORE MACLEAN SWITZ...