Word: hoax
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Someone has been trying to hoax Manhattan, and, judging from the furious flood of contributions to the "World", he has succeeded admirably. A man who styles himself "A. K. Fill more, President of the League for the Uplift of Moral Virtue and the Suppression of Unwarranted Pleasure" managed to get that paper to print a letter advocating coffee-prohibition. "Brain-numbing and soui-destroying brew" he terms this fluid, and ends that inasmuch as the Bible does not state that coffee drinking is not a sin it "must be classed with other licentious habits". If Mark Twain were alive today...
...time when he could no longer conceal from himself the obvious fact that he was getting on in years, and that his attractions as a heartbreaker were on the wane. Nevertheless, he resolves to have one last fling with a lady named Marcolina, and, by means of rather disgraceful hoax, accomplishes his aims, and, as was always his custom, escapes all vengeance. The tale is well written?the author a distinguished international figure in the literary world? but, except for its suave manner and its excellent visualization of one of the most corrupt and interesting characters of a corrupt...
...were placed in the fire to drive out the evil spirits. Mary Ellen of Nova Scotia kept sophisticated newspaper readers undecided between belief and scorn. And more recently a nurse caused gray bearded doctors to shake their puzzled heads at her steadily maintained temperature of 114 degrees until the hoax was discovered in the form of a hot water bottle...
...Iowa and his 100% American home prove too much for him-par-ticularly after an unsuccessful attempt has been made to condemn him to Yale and he flies to New York. There he encounters another rebellious but less illusionary young person from home-a girl who finds life a hoax and love nothing but filth...
...rumored that The Waste Land was written as a hoax. Several of its supporters explain that that is immaterial, literature being concerned not with intentions but results...