Word: hoax
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Religious Hoax...
...matter what the scantiness of news may be, newspapers these days almost never publish a hoax. The joke may be widely enjoyable...
...exasperated editor might perpetrate a hoax of this sort. But he will never meddle with a religious subject. That was left to a Canadian Modernist during the ten-day session of the World's Christian Fundamentals Association at Toronto the beginning of the month. W. Harold Young, a Canadian correspondent of the Christian Century, gleefully tells the story in the current issue of that periodical...
...Fundamentalist convention, the clever writer found his opportunity, sent the manuscript without comment to a Dr. Brown, who based his main argument for the authenticity of the Jonah story on this "discovery." Toronto papers this time reported Dr. Brown and his "proof." Then they were told of the hoax. Dr. Brown went away from there...
...shrieks of horror when, cracking the shell, she released half a dozen scabrous tropical cockroaches and a vicious, adult scorpion, which immediately plunged, its stinger into her hand. While Mlle. Hastre received medical aid, friends of Mlle. Van Hong Lu loudly denied that she could have connived in the hoax...