Word: hoaxes
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...delight of this successful hoax was all the more the following fall when two Crimeds, posing as New York newspapermen, visited Hanover before the game and snared details of a monster Indian attempt to retaliate for the 1946 humiliation...
...Hero of a famed hoax concocted by bored newspapermen in 1925, another boom Channel-swimming year. Itchy Guk was solemnly reported by the Paris Herald to have postponed his Channel try because the water, too cold for all the other contenders...
...tells about a wild chase two fellows make up and down the Eastern Seaboard attending parties held the same day but several hundred miles apart. Another story, "Banker's Holiday," is a suspiciously whimsical piece for the Lampoon. I say 'suspiciously' because I was expecting some dirty little hoax at the conclusion, but the author maintains the fantasy through the ending, and, except for its length and occasional awkwardness of diction ("Tom began to laugh. 'Oh hell,' he choked.") it is a creditable bit of fantasy...
Hello, Gang. For a while, in the '20s, she haunted New York theatrical agencies. In 1927 she was arrested for pretending to attempt suicide on a Philadelphia bridge- apublicity hoax to advertise a sleazy movie about unwed mothers. She was an artist's model in Paris in 1928, a dressmaker's assistant in Algiers in 1933. When the war broke out she was teaching English in Berlin; she was soon broadcasting in English on the German radio...
...friends decided to reverse the hoax. They rented a pony from a local stable, and had it delivered to Lilienthal yesterday before program time...