Word: hoaxes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Evil Hoax. The Blade wavered under fire but came no closer to surrender than to describe the nurse's attacker as a "dark brown man." Same day, the paper ran an editorial decrying racial "extremists" and rumormongers. Last week, as Toledo teetered on the edge of serious race troubles, both the minister's daughter and the nurse confessed to police that their stories were wholly fabricated...
Publisher Block did not crow to his readers. A research chemist who earned degrees from Yale, Harvard and Columbia before taking over following the death of Paul Block Sr. in 1941, dark-haired, retiring Paul Block, 46, dispassionately analyzed Toledo's "evil hoax" both in the evening Blade and its sister paper, the stodgy morning Times (41,841), which had also avoided the racial tag but stirred few complaints. (The Block-owned Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, which is published by younger brother William, has the same racial policy...
...Capp at last getting his comeuppance? What did he think of the Saunders-Ernst treatment? Said he: "Unpardonable slander. Something disgraceful, humiliating." Then Capp took his tongue out of his cheek and exposed the feud (sob!) as a hoax. He and Saunders cooked it up last fall in Washington at a meeting of the cartooning clan ("a pretty damn dull profession"). Rapp will go on taking raps for a few weeks until, says Capp, Saunders "casually reveals at the end that I'm not a monster." Confirmed Cartoonist Saunders: "Rapp just follows the public concept of Capp, an egotistical...
Pikes & Pensions. But to erstwhile foreign-aid defender Wayne Morse, the carefully considered bill was no more than "a gigantic hoax on the Senate and the people." To a chamber dotted with only half a dozen members, Morse proclaimed in his best monotone: "This country does not need, and should not seek, perpetual dependents anywhere in the world . . . Aid in this pattern may help to prop up an irresponsible government which professes friendship for this country and natters the administrators of this program. Sooner or later, however, the people of this country will pay a terrible price for this unmitigated...
...police termed the entire affair a hoax, and allowed these of the girls that were awake to go back to sleep...