Word: hoax
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...universal "Yankee nation" to which he dedicates his book, was entitled to amusement, and that he had been sent almost as a prophet to supply that need. He further believed that the public would go to any lengths to obtain amusement and did not object to an occasional hoax, so long as it was all in the spirit of good clean fun. Good clean fun there is in plenty among the pages of this long showing off of a showman, and fun that is enjoyable to a reader if not taken in too large doses...
...dramatist should write his comedies with more wit and originality than Mr. Luria, if he hopes to perpetrate a graceful hoax. The Comic fumbles with a situation in which an actor convinces a playwright that a certain scene needs rewriting, by maneuvering the playwright into a nervous predicament with the leading lady. The Manhattan audience was more befuddled than convinced-despite the able performance of Actress Patricia Collinge...
...finger's hand and the forearm, a right one, to which the hand belonged. There was no body. Affrighted the children's parents summoned authorities, who smelled the medical laboratory solution used to pickle anatomical specimens and then decided that frolicsome medical students had "planted" the remnant to hoax Philadelphia police...
...Hoax. During the early part of last week, the Detroit courtroom buzzed with rumors that Mr. Ford would soon appear, although the judge and the lawyers knew that he was lying in a hospital with painful injuries and that he would not testify for at least two weeks (see p. 34). Suddenly, a U. S. deputy marshal escorted a man who he thought was Mr. Ford to a front row seat, while photographers set off flashlight powders. The man laughed, admitted that he was James G. Goodrich, treasurer of Lockmoor village, double of Mr. Ford. The U. S. deputy marshal...
...time, workmen roped off a main London thoroughfare, spat on their palms, swung picks all morning, sat on the edge of the gaping asphalt to eat their lunches, continued their havoc until sundown, then returned to their colleges and usual clothes. Weeks of traffic congestion failed to reveal the hoax...