Word: hoax
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gothic murals. Recalled Malskat: "I was allowed to stop fabricating French impressionists. Fey had a better job for me: I had to go back to the Middle Ages." But when "that crook Fey took all the credit and most of the money," Malskat admitted, he decided to reveal the hoax...
...Jolla, Calif. tj Reports Bumblie's headmaster, Gerald Miller, no wet weed: "If such a wonderful hoax had happened up at university, it would have gone down as a great university prank. Some people thought it was terrible and required discipline, others that it was deucedly clever and should be laughed off. I decided the latter, so he has had no punishment and will get none." Added the Head, who is also getting mail about Bumblie: "I hope your readers are happy about...
...week, as Headmaster Miller good-naturedly tried to decide what sort of punishment would fit Christopher's crime ("He broke every rule. But it was all so diabolically clever"), London's newspapers were having a field day. "What a corker!" cried the Daily Express. "Boy's Hoax Takes in All the School," said the Daily Sketch. "Even Hoaxes the Head," added the News Chronicle. Why had Christopher done it? "Things had been so frightfully dull around here," said the boy who used to be called Bumblie. "I just felt I had to stir something...
...replace Representative Douglas Stringfellow, who withdrew from the race in his district after confessing that his oft-told story of war heroism was a hoax, Utah Republicans last week nominated Henry Aldous Dixon, popular president of Utah State Agricultural College...
Forty-eight hours later, red-faced CBS officials confessed to the hoax. Mario went back into seclusion...