Word: hoax
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...North Dakota's' Wild Plum School (TIME, April 24) proved last week to be in sound accord with the scientific principle of increasing entropy (i.e., that the odds are trillions of trillions to one against lumps of coal spontaneously making little leaps). It was all a hoax, compounded of the pupils' legerdemain and the teacher's myopia...
...like A. H. Patterson's letter with his slate for the national elections, and I like your solemn publication of it without comment and I shall enjoy seeing the reaction. I don't suppose that more than one reader in five will recognize it as a hoax...
...Vermont's Republican Senator George D. Aiken the subsidy plan was "an alien plan ... a hoax inflicted on the American people...
...Star's story (ENEMY AIR-RAID MARKER STORY JUST A HOAX) caught the War Department flatfooted. It admitted that the story was indeed a fraud, launched an inquiry by Lieut. General Hugh A. Drum, commander of the First Army, to fix responsibility. While the press howled for ex-Hollywood Press Agent Lynn Farnol's scalp, Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson announced a reorganization of Army press-agentry, which had been in the works before the air-marker story. The new system, intended to prevent just such blunders and to end rivalry among Army units for headlines, centers...
...South was also Melancthon's riding with the Klan, or, retching, watching the castration of a Negro. It was Storekeeper Casper Fleming, who used Melancthon as a war-haloed decoy to swindle poor whites out of their land in a railroad hoax. It was his own conscience when, realizing the hoax and achingly needing money, he had to decide what to do. More dubiously, the New South was his brother's ice-hearted, erogenous widow Rachel, willing to back the hoax, eager to watch men die, dallying with a nincompoop Yankee officer whom Melancthon felt a need...