Word: faked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ingenious fellow in my office prepared a fake 'diary' of a German soldier, who was supposed to have had to assist in boiling down some of his comrades. And it was planned that a certain correspondent who had a passion for German diaries should be allowed to 'discover' it. ... But I felt that the deception had gone far enough. . . . An error in the diary might have led to an exposure of the falsity, which would have imperiled the effectiveness of all British propaganda. ... It was never used and is now in the London War Museum...
...Ectoplasm around the neck of an extreme skeptic. The suspicious gentleman promptly bit into the substance to discover its nature, whereupon Mrs. Thompson screamed and retired to nurse the teeth marks in her arm. It appears to be true, according to Mr. Dunworth that there have been more fake spiritualists among women than men, but that the men are as a rule harder to discover...
...state of New York is attempting to curb fake spiritualism by prohibiting the advertising of fortune tellers, clairvoyants, and mediums," continued Mr. Dunworth. "Now they hang out a shingle with the inscription 'Church of Truth', or 'Lotus Temple' and make twice as much money...
...Frederick Dunworth will answer these questions tonight in the living room of the Union at 7.30 o'clock. Mr. Dunworth, long famous as an exposer of fake mediums will talk before a Harvard audience tonight, dealing with the problems of spirit photography, table raising, reading by the aid of crystal gazing, and many others...
...meeting was variously garbled, camouflaged or ignored in press dispatches. The plain fact was that Mr. Coolidge raked the correspondents over the coals. He said that their "hot weather reporting" was pretty poor stuff. He suggested that some of them might well give their daily reports a serial title: "Faking with the President." He intimated that it would be better not to send out fake reports oftener than every two weeks- not to report that he was expecting an anthracite miners' strike since he was not; not to report that he was going to call a conference of miners...