Word: hoaxes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...MAGNIFICENT HOAX-E. Phillips Oppenheim-Little, Brown ($2). Last week E. Phillips Oppenheim published his 100th novel. This year rounds out a half-century of writing. Next October he will be 70. "E. Phillips Oppenheim" is more than a man's name: it has become a familiar phrase for bejewelled melodrama. In the 50 years Author Oppenheim has been doing business his trademarked product has become as well known and as popular as a successful breakfast food, and for the same reasons : it is a standard brand and it pleases the public palate. To analyze an Oppenheim book would...
...Futrell. Negro Weems's "funeral," he sputtered, was only strike propaganda. Negro Weems, he had been informed, was still alive. Though he failed to produce the missing Negro, Sheriff Howard Curlin of Crittenden County nodded corroboration. Some even suspected that Miss Blagden's beating might be a hoax. To prove her story she pulled up her skirts for Memphis photographers. To Arkansas. Attorney General Homer Stille Cummings sped Sam E. Whitaker to "investigate" the sharecroppers' plight, although Mr. Whitaker had just finished a similar investigation...
...possible Hoax...
Other reporters were equally thwarted in an attempt to get new light on the break, which is now believed to have taken place six weeks ago instead of two as announced. Further, a large proportion of the press look upon the whole thing as a hoax, one rumor being spread that a New York reporter had bribed a student to commit the crime for the sake of publicity...
...younger days, Hofma-m spent some time composing, credited his pieces to one Michel Dvorsky, whom he liked to describe as a poor, sickly Pole living in Spain. Hofmann still plays "Dvorsky" music, much of it reminiscent of the Chopin he reveres. But the hoax was exploded years ago when someone took the trouble to translate Hofmann into Polish, found that it meant Dvorsky...