Word: hoax
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Five days later Dr. Logan confessed. U. S. papers delightedly printed first page stories of the hoax. Dr. Logan admitted she had ridden most of the way across in her pilot boat; averred she had done so with a purpose of confessing to warn the world that many of the recent channel swims looked "fishy." Believing that channel swimmers lie, she advocated an official board of supervision for channel swimmers; returned...
...dozens. They know it because every time any college student committed suicide, the fact was bellowed from the front page of every U.S. newsheet. In a period when news was scarce, space was filled by the details of an imaginary "epidemic." Editors soon came to believe in their hoax and wrote articles showing how too much philosophy was being inserted into callow brains. Educators were faced with a grave dilemma, when it seemed probable that the death rate of colleges would exceed applications for entrance. Soon came the Hall-Mills and Snyder-Gray murder cases, and the "youth suicide wave...
...employed as local switchboard operator for the Royalist newspaper L'Action Française when its staff decided to get their editor, M. Leon Daudet, out of prison by mimicking the voice of a high official and ordering his relaese (TIME, July 4). Mme. Montard, by handling these hoax calls, became, in the eyes of the police, a conspirator. She was arrested, led into the grey depths of La Prison Sant?...
...that Colonel Lindbergh, the naïve, the non-commercial - the Lindbergh who carried a passport and letters of introduction with him on his flight-should have given his name to the ancient journalistic hoax came rather as a shock. Readers shook heads, shrugged shoulders, mumured: "Say, it isn't true, Lindy, say it isn't true." But, on reflection, they decided that, after all, it did not so much matter whether Colonel Lindbergh did or did not write his signed stories-they made excellent reading, they were presumably at least based on interviews with him, and Colonol...
...wireless message last week, obviously a hoax, said: "Nungesser and Coli have been located. The two aviators trekked into Trinity [Newfoundland] late Thursday afternoon. . . . They were bedraggled and weary. News follows by cable. Please distribute to newspapers...