Word: hoax
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...combat men. Last week the Army added up some statistics, announced that 2,800 decorations had been won by its devoted medics. Among them: one Medal of Honor, nine D.S.C.s, 149 Silver Stars, 1,110 Purple Hearts. ¶ In Washington, the National Research Council spoke up to scotch a hoax. People calling themselves "Kinsey investigators" have been telephoning Washingtonians to ask intimate questions about their sex lives. Said the council: no real Kinsey man interviews by telephone...
...your July 16 story "The Bell of Kamela" we have a new variation of a perennial hoax. Older examples include the story of the Confederate general who, returning from the wars, stashed his sword in the fork of a young tree, whence it "grew" upward along with the tree only to be found long afterward, high above the ground, by the general's grandson. Now we hear of a cowbell which, tied by a pioneer to a young sapling, is found presumably 73 years later at the top of a towering ponderosa pine...
...price war, New York retail sales had soared 25% above last year-and that included the thousands of merchants who had stayed on the sidelines. Said Secretary-Treasurer George A. Renard of the National Association of Purchasing Agents: "This talk about injury to a competitor is the biggest hoax and hooey . . . Of course, competitors should be injured; when they lose business it jars them into doing something about it, and that is what made our production and distribution methods the envy of the world...
...breakfast table reaction of girls who had not been questioned was that the affair was "pretty funny." Some 'Cliffites said that they would have suspected a hoax immediately and would not have answered...
...goes through the motions of re-enacting scenes from such Valentino favorites as The Sheik and The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. He succeeds in looking like Valentino when the camera angle is right; most of the time, he looks like a jowly young man caught in a hopeless hoax...