Word: hoax
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Perhaps these notices are but a hoax; perhaps no liquor will be served. But the thing suggests what I had hoped was a vanishing evil,--a lot of maudlin, loud-voiced and excited 'good fellers,' flushed and silly and unmanly, who next day will feel very much ashamed...
...well-known Yankee dialect sketches, one of which, in spite of its verse form, Edward J. O'Brien lists among the fine short stories of the year. These sketches will some day be collected in a volume. It was during this time, too, that she perpetrated her literary hoax, a la her famous ancestor, and fooled the public for many months with A Critical Fable, published first anonymously, finally acknowledged. The Sonnets to Duse should not be forgotten; they were a glowing tribute to a great genius and a friend...
...events, the Ku Klux of America seems to have taken flight with all its clattering symbols of Kleagles and Klaverns. The suggestion that it was a clever hoax, highly remunerative to its perpetrators, has dissolved this shadowiest of empires. In Germany the menacing standards of nationalism and anti-Semitism have been buried under a blizzard of hostile ballots. Even in Italy, a home of unreflective national passions, the Fascists are relaxing their grip...
...leaders of the society, still identified only by numbers in convict fashion, have assured the CRIMSON that the affair is not a hoax, that there really will be a parade with band, torches, and all the conventional trappings of a political procession...
...Journal of the American Medical Association, after an investigation "does not hesitate to express the opinion that the so-called Benjamin Franklin Fund does not exist and that the alleged major award to Banning is as big a hoax as the resurrection stunt at the Albany County Hospital." The latter allusion refers to a former incident in which Banning was involved. During the summer of 1923 newspaper editors received four typewritten pages, legal size, purporting to come from the Albany Chamber of Commerce. It dealt with the "most remarkable case in modern medical science" that had recently happened...