Word: hoax
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...then put her in The Adventures of Marco Polo. Last week, Miss Gurie and her husband, a small businessman named Thomas Stewart, were in the Los Angeles divorce court, and a few perfunctory questions brought out that she was born in Brooklyn, N. Y. Said Mr. Goldwyn: "The greatest hoax in box-office history ... I am a very happy victim...
Victims of the carefully planned, hoax of a heartless practical joker, a large number of Business School students spent some very uncomfortable hours yesterday...
Next day friends of Miss Okada mourned her as a traitress to Japan, morally dead. The Japanese Government ordered its consul at Alexandrovsk, Russian Sakhalin, to "demand full information." But over their beer in Tokyo hard-to-convince U. S. journalists, suspicious of a publicity hoax, agreed that so far as they knew the lover of Miss Okada had been not Sugimoto but a mildly radical Japanese theatrical producer, Yoshimasa Yoshida. Sure enough, part of their suspicion was confirmed. Japanese dispatches from Sakhalin declared that the lover in the case was indeed Yoshida but still insisted that he and Miss...
...believed likely that expulsion will be recommended for the perpetrators of this latest hoax if they are caught, as that was the procedure followed last year at the time of the birth control hoax...
Jokes are fine things if they are funny. But if they injure or scare or build up phobias in the victims, jokes are no longer funny though they may still be side-splitting to bystanders. Of such calibre was the hoax attempted against some Freshmen this week. To receive notice that he has contracted a social disease is not a laughing matter to a young man especially when the notice appears to come from a scource as business-like and straightforward as the Hygiene Department. It is too likely to be taken seriously, and the ensuing worry and doubt...