Word: hoax
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After vainly striving to snatch the lime-light away from Prince Romanoff, L. Donovan Bisbee ocC., well-known undergraduate hoax and prolific correspondent, committed suicide, in his study in Leverett House yesterday morning. It is generally rumored that the mid-year exams were too much for his neurotic perpetrators. With a sigh of regret, the more eligible society matrons in Boston and vicinity will remove Bisbee's name from their door lists, for though he never appeared, he was much in demand...
...elicited scorn: "Cleverest pseudo-scientific hoax yet perpetrated" (American Engineering Council). "Intellectual mah jong . . . Greenwich Village economics" (University of Chicago...
...rejoiced last week in a new and different murder story for their front pages. The.victim was a girl. Her remains had lain undiscovered in Minnesota, not just a few hours, but for many years. The number of years was what made the story, as a murder story, a newspaper hoax and a scientist's delight. Professor Albert Ernest Jenks of the University of Minnesota gave the story its first publication. Speaking before the National Academy of Science meeting at Ann Arbor last week, he set the number of years at some 200 centuries. That would make the Minnesota maid...
Died. Rear Admiral Frederick Chamberlayne Billard, 58, Commandant of the U. S. Coast Guard Service; of pneumonia; in Washington. Directing from his bed the Coast Guard's search for the Lindbergh baby, Admiral Billard overtaxed his strength, died before being informed of the Curtis hoax...
...Grand Desert of Northeastern Paraguay," according to a statement given out yesterday at the Museum of Comparative Zoology. Repudiating Woes, who claimed to be "a Harvard explorer," the statement characterized him as "an obviously inexperienced amateur" and the publicity he gave out as "a revival of the White Indian hoax...