Word: canards
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...Nacionalistas, as might have been expected, hotly denied the charges as "brazen" and "a canard...
...copy of her old badge of office, a small black satin tricorne hat, Madam Perkins, who has never reconciled her views of fashion with those of the style experts, admitted that it was the first time she had ever attended a fashion show. However, she said, "there is one canard I want to deny. I may never have another opportunity. I do not have my hats made at the Bureau of Standards...
...Islam or the sword" was his policy toward pagans. That Islam offered this harsh choice to Jews or Christians ("People of the Book") is a canard of Christian propagandists...
Many ministers and laymen apparently assume that the Freudians are in favor of sexual promiscuity, but "this assumption is false, and its reiteration is a lie, a slander, a canard, and a misrepresentation of facts . . . Psychoanalysts do not favor promiscuity, do not encourage it, do not attempt to relieve any patient's guilt about it, and, in short, are no more to be considered immoral inciters to crime than anyone else who is doing his best to diminish the errors of mankind. Quite the reverse, most of them spend hours and hours attempting to relieve patients from the compulsive...
...anyone who knew what went on behind the grey post-Capone fagade, it was all a base canard. Surviving kinsmen and colleagues of Al had expanded all their mentor's old rackets-the bookie room, the call houses, the gambling joints, the numbers games and the dope runs. Striving for real class-the quiet stuff-they had moved into riches and power that Al never dreamed of. The trick was done by plowing their illicit earnings into legitimate channels. One man who knew plenty about "The Outfit" of 1950 was William J. Drury, a handsome Irish...