Word: canard
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...story that The Ashes, famed prize of Australia v. England cricket, do not really exist is a canard. After Australia's first victory over England on British soil in 1882, a sportswriter in the London Sporting Times wrote a facetious epitaph for English cricket, announced that the body would be cremated and the ashes taken to Australia. Any chance that Britishers would ever stop relishing this grisly little quip was effectively destroyed when England's dashing Ivo Bligh, who captained a team that beat Australia the following year, brought back an urn full of real ashes. He explained...
...Novack of the American Committee for the Defense of Leon Trotsky, whose most eminent member is Socialist Norman Thomas, no pilgrim as yet. Last June the Trotskyist Communists of the U. S. merged with the Thomasist Socialists. Normally benign, Mr. Thomas becomes vehement if given opportunity to deny "the canard" that perhaps Trotsky and Stalin are not altogether sincere undoers of each other's work. In the Thomas camp it is an article of faith that Stalin, as Dictator of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, is an enemy of "true Socialism" while Trotsky is a friend. However...
...will turn the government over to a group of self-seeking and irresponsible "royalists". Any examination of Governor Landon's past record and his views as expressed in the present campaign, as well as a knowledge of the Republican platform adopted at Cleveland, shows this to be a canard of the type so often encountered in American politics...
...National Committee of attempting to besmirch "the sterling character and unblemished reputation" of "one of the finest officers of the U. S. Army," directly accused the GOP publicity staff of concocting the whole story. As usual, though, the corrections never made the front pages, never caught up with the canard...
...Certain Negro." Rushing to the Palace went "the Black Eagle of Harlem." Colonel Hubert Fauntleroy Julian, to answer personally a canard, emanating from Rome, that a "certain American Negro" was plotting to kill the Emperor. After a tense scene Colonel Julian fainted, then recovered, emerged smiling and cried...