Word: hoax
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...Christmas Story had been yanked off sale in Canada, was feeling better. A Canadian cinema producer had the rights to Mencken's A Neglected Anniversary (deadpan history of the bathtub, written some 30 years ago), and Mencken had a gratifying contract: in exchange for rights to the old hoax, the old hoaxer (who is a connoisseur of brews) was guaranteed two cases of Canadian ale a month for the rest of his life. Further, he did not have to return "the bottles and containers or other cartons in which such ale is shipped...
...Hearstly Hoax. In 1898, Hearst sent him to Cuba to wait for the Spanish-American War. (When Remington complained that there was no war, Hearst, in a cable that unfriendly Hearst biographers love to quote, wired: "You furnish the pictures; I'll furnish...
...decade's most lurid yarns: the story of how three young Cuban women were stripped and searched by Spanish police aboard a U.S. steamship in Havana harbor. Remington did the revealing illustration. It was a scoop until the rival Pulitzer press made it equally famous as a hoax...
...bald-faced economic imperialism in the Far East was revealed by Sheeks, who quoted Senator Tydings "The whole philosophy is to keep the Philippines economically even though we lose them politically." Sheeks scored the entire policy as "a hoax as cynical and as tragic as any in history...
...Disjointed TIME apologizes to Reader Bundenthal for unwittingly abetting a hoax, suspects that some brazen G.I. has found a new way of getting even with his sergeant...