Word: hoax
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...been approved by the bluestocking Atlantic Monthly (where part of it was serialized), and is sponsored by the Literary Guild. Though it is actually the autobiography of Ger- trude Stein, unwary readers might get all the way to the 310th and last page without discovering the mild hoax. For no author's name is on the title-page, and the book is written as if by Alice B. Toklas herself. But cognoscenti, even if they had not been forewarned by advance publicity, would recognize the circular motto on the book's cover-a signature as peculiar to Gertrude...
...become famous. And then it was the moon that made it so. A cross-eyed reporter named Richard Adams Locke wrote an ingenious account of how Sir John Herschel. with his new telescope, had found manbats, beasts and weird vegetation on the moon. Locke's hoax shoved the Sim's circulation up to 19,000-largest of any daily in the world -and Ben Day could boast that New Yorkers read the Sun by day, studied the moon by night. Nine years later the Sun fostered another fable-the balloon hoax. It was Edgar Allan...
...that temerity be not vain, one is tempted to suggest that the two humorous undergraduate publications look to their laurels. Youth has been quick to appraise and to emulate the form if not the substance of the diversion common to distraught journalists, hapless explorers, and brilliant financiers. To the hoax it has brought the charm of unflagging devotion and ingenuous extravaganza; but in maturity there remains ever that godlike leaven of simplicity which is the preface to credibility...
...general opinion of the members of the Harvard group that could be reached last night was that the whole affair was a pure hoax. But complete, detailed accounts of all the sessions held in Emerson 11 in 1925 are contained in a hundred-page report, "Margery Harvard Veritas." Although signed statements of the professors testify to the fact that there was no trickery involved, the final verdict of the group was that the phenomena were not well-attested boxes on the professors laps, megaphones moved around the table, lights glowed, and "Margery" moved freely around in her compartment, although wired...
...work direct to museum or collector, never, so far as investigators could discover, pretended that they were anything but his own work. Nor did he make money. Dealers paid him about $200 each for works they sold for as much as $100,000. Even these payments were tardy. The hoax was first exposed when Dossena sued one Alfredo Fasoli, antique dealer, for back pay. If Alceo Dossena is not the greatest forger, he certainly is one of the few imitators of antiquities whose work still has real value after the hoax has been exposed. Last week his surplus stock...