Word: canard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nelson's Hat. The Thing had grown a little less awful as a result of Bikini; its apparently infinite power was finite after all. Le Canard Enchaîné ran a cartoon of a fashionable woman refusing a rendezvous the day before the test: "I really can't tomorrow. I have the end of the world. How about the day after?" Cried Communist Humanité: "The bomb lost some of its prestige. . . . They will no longer be able to play so easily with the nerves and imaginations of people. . . ." Said a disappointed London clerk: "I rather imagined...
...Paris, Ky. He will practice law in Lexington and Frankfort, turn his eager eagle eye on the politics of his home state. At Harvard "Prich" had been particularly famed for one boast: that he would some day be Governor of Kentucky. This he branded last week as a base canard; he just intends to "run for something." With a fair show of diffidence he confided: "My ears are to the ground, but I don't hear any popular clamor...
Cried Paris' famed funny sheet Canard Enchaêné: French lovers of the grape, beware! The Government plans "wine control!" Serious papers paid no attention. Frenchmen growled: Tu parles! (No kidding...
...South's newest anti-Negro canard, supplanting gossip of Eleanor Clubs and the subsequent Disappointment Clubs,* is the rumored organization by Detroit
Although Greene's statement refuting the Globe story was issued almost immediately after the edition hit the streets, the United Press in this time sent the canard on its nation-wide wires, only to be forced to issue "kill" instructions a short while later. Radio commentators all night were telling the whole story, complete with the denial...