Word: hoax
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Harvard gasped, and Joseph Lyford strode into the Crimson office with blood in his eye. He quickly established that the Crimson itself had pulled a hoax: it had faked its picture by posing someone else at the bookshelves and tacking on the body a photograph of Lyford's head...
Next day the Crimson, ignoring Joseph Lyford's threat to sue it for libel, made no mention of its hoax but reported that book-turning had broken out anew, this time in the Adams House library. Harvard was still baffled by its most mysterious pranking in many a year...
Couple of years ago the Yale News startled Yale men with an announcement about the impending Yale-Michigan football game: that 800 eager Michigan co-eds planned to invade New Haven in search of mates. The story was a hoax. Consequently, when the News printed a similar story last month, Yale men yawned. Said the News: The day of the Brown game would be Sadie Hawkins Day: any girl who cared to buy game tickets and pay expenses might go to New Haven and grab herself a Yale escort. To their consternation, Yale men soon learned that this time...
...Powell is a $22-a-week comptometer clerk with three practical-joking friends who paste together a bogus telegram notifying him he has won the contest. By dint of some improbable inefficiency in the Maxford House organization, he collects the check, spends a sizable slice of it before the hoax is bared...
...page indictment. Into the jug again went Nazi Leader Arnulf Fuhrmann and seven of his disciples. Führer Fuhrmann cheerfully admitted hatching the plot, insisted it was just a joke. After reports had been published of Nazi plans to invade Patagonia, he chuckled, he had built up the hoax to tickle the ribs of his fellow Germans in Argentina...