Word: faked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Soon the fake was detected. The stories were all so insistent upon the name of Mlle. Roseray's stamping ground, upon the name of her partner, upon the tremendous reputation she had built up for herself, upon her beauty, upon the loss to the theatrical world which would have been the result of her decease, that astute editors became suspicious. The next day some of them printed stories about how the fake had been effected, not forgetting to stress the foxlike guile of Mlle. Roseray's press-agent who had fooled all the clever reporters. The witty, wisecracking...
Later in the week, there were varying comments on this feast of fake fatalities and free-for-all ballyhoo. Some criticised the apparent foolishness of the press. Others gave great praise to Press-agent Irving Strouse. They said: "Certain flowers have a brief but repetitive bloom; likewise a fashion, a joke, a publicity stunt. Press-agent Strouse was clever in that he accurately gauged the precise degree of reportorial gullibility; newshawks are perhaps to be excused for supposing that no one would dare attempt so blatant a hoax in the hope of practicing a deception. Press-agent Strouse indubitably...
When the three men came back, the church was silent again. They found the tramp lying in the organ loft, asleep, wrapped up in a uniform that some fake Santa Claus had worn for Christmas. They spoke to the tramp to wake him up, then arrested him for playing the church organ. He said that his name was William Nolte, that his age was 23, that he had been living in the church for a month, that he had once attended Sunday School there...
Last week Mother Burnham awoke one morning horrified. Plastered hugely across the first page of the Daily Mirror, Hearst tabloid, was Vera's picture, heavily headlined, triumphantly copyrighted. Mother Burnham eyed it narrowly; saw it was no fake...
...Your Toes presents Reginald Denny, first as a young dancing master, the career his grandmother had picked out for him, then as a vigorous and successful pugilist. Noted for his winning personality, Actor Denny supplies the expected climax by whacking a fake heavyweight champion and winning his title. Waving his hands and, to indicate annoyance, his ears, Actor Denny is pleasantly absurd...