Word: hoax
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Whole Affair May Be Hoax...
...after his death must not be taken too seriously. Mark Twain inserted that there were things in his autobiography which would cause a revolution if printed earlier than the year 2000, yet his work has been found more tame than epochal. Mr. Clemenceau may merely to perpetrating a Gallie hoax...
...Perhaps these notices are but a hoax; perhaps no liquor will be served. But the thing suggests what I had hoped was a vanishing evil,--a lot of maudlin, loud-voiced and excited 'good fellers,' flushed and silly and unmanly, who next day will feel very much ashamed...
...well-known Yankee dialect sketches, one of which, in spite of its verse form, Edward J. O'Brien lists among the fine short stories of the year. These sketches will some day be collected in a volume. It was during this time, too, that she perpetrated her literary hoax, a la her famous ancestor, and fooled the public for many months with A Critical Fable, published first anonymously, finally acknowledged. The Sonnets to Duse should not be forgotten; they were a glowing tribute to a great genius and a friend...
...events, the Ku Klux of America seems to have taken flight with all its clattering symbols of Kleagles and Klaverns. The suggestion that it was a clever hoax, highly remunerative to its perpetrators, has dissolved this shadowiest of empires. In Germany the menacing standards of nationalism and anti-Semitism have been buried under a blizzard of hostile ballots. Even in Italy, a home of unreflective national passions, the Fascists are relaxing their grip...