Word: hoax
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...that Colonel Lindbergh, the naïve, the non-commercial - the Lindbergh who carried a passport and letters of introduction with him on his flight-should have given his name to the ancient journalistic hoax came rather as a shock. Readers shook heads, shrugged shoulders, mumured: "Say, it isn't true, Lindy, say it isn't true." But, on reflection, they decided that, after all, it did not so much matter whether Colonel Lindbergh did or did not write his signed stories-they made excellent reading, they were presumably at least based on interviews with him, and Colonol...
...wireless message last week, obviously a hoax, said: "Nungesser and Coli have been located. The two aviators trekked into Trinity [Newfoundland] late Thursday afternoon. . . . They were bedraggled and weary. News follows by cable. Please distribute to newspapers...
...universal "Yankee nation" to which he dedicates his book, was entitled to amusement, and that he had been sent almost as a prophet to supply that need. He further believed that the public would go to any lengths to obtain amusement and did not object to an occasional hoax, so long as it was all in the spirit of good clean fun. Good clean fun there is in plenty among the pages of this long showing off of a showman, and fun that is enjoyable to a reader if not taken in too large doses...
...dramatist should write his comedies with more wit and originality than Mr. Luria, if he hopes to perpetrate a graceful hoax. The Comic fumbles with a situation in which an actor convinces a playwright that a certain scene needs rewriting, by maneuvering the playwright into a nervous predicament with the leading lady. The Manhattan audience was more befuddled than convinced-despite the able performance of Actress Patricia Collinge...
...finger's hand and the forearm, a right one, to which the hand belonged. There was no body. Affrighted the children's parents summoned authorities, who smelled the medical laboratory solution used to pickle anatomical specimens and then decided that frolicsome medical students had "planted" the remnant to hoax Philadelphia police...