Word: hoax
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Doren; letters of the late James Gibbons Huneker; The Aesthete: Model 1924 by Ernest Boyd; an article on Hiram W. Johnson by John W. Owens of the Baltimore Sun; Two Years of Disarmament by "a man who, because of his official position, cannot sign this article"; The Communist Hoax by a member of the staff of the extinct New York Call (Socialist) ; The Drool Method in History by a professor of Smith College; Santayana at Cambridge by Margaret Münsterberg, daughter of the late Dr. Hugo Münsterberg...
...good editorial judgment would also have indicated the waste-basket as the proper depositary for a letter which the CRIMSON printed a few days ago over the signature of an alleged alumnus whose name does not appear in the Alumni Directory. This letter, quite apart from the apparent hoax of its authorship, would not have been given space in any reputable publication edited by full-grown men, for its contents were insulting to a considerable element in our citizenship...
...Riddle of Life--A Study: and "Gossamer: The Riddle of the Future--A Fancy". These are highly fantastic titles, but no more so than the subject matter warrants. One is forced to read several chapters before one is convinced that the whole thing is not a great, super-developed hoax, and from then on, the utmost concentration is required to follow the writer's logic at all. The first essay consists of a most elaborate and painstaking demonstration of the theory that all modern and ancient languages have grown out of one fundamental languages and alphabet, whose very sounds...
Someone has been trying to hoax Manhattan, and, judging from the furious flood of contributions to the "World", he has succeeded admirably. A man who styles himself "A. K. Fill more, President of the League for the Uplift of Moral Virtue and the Suppression of Unwarranted Pleasure" managed to get that paper to print a letter advocating coffee-prohibition. "Brain-numbing and soui-destroying brew" he terms this fluid, and ends that inasmuch as the Bible does not state that coffee drinking is not a sin it "must be classed with other licentious habits". If Mark Twain were alive today...
...time when he could no longer conceal from himself the obvious fact that he was getting on in years, and that his attractions as a heartbreaker were on the wane. Nevertheless, he resolves to have one last fling with a lady named Marcolina, and, by means of rather disgraceful hoax, accomplishes his aims, and, as was always his custom, escapes all vengeance. The tale is well written?the author a distinguished international figure in the literary world? but, except for its suave manner and its excellent visualization of one of the most corrupt and interesting characters of a corrupt...