Word: hoaxes
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...Lecture Hall a few minutes before noon, found to their surprise that the doors were locked. Five minutes later a crowd estimated at between 1500 and 2000 persons was milling around the two entrances to the auditorium. When it became evident that the whole affair was a gigantic hoax, a muttering arose from the assemblage which culminated in a few "Rhineharts" and epithetical side-lights...
...appearance a pure preRaphaelite, she was actually more like an emancipated Bryn Mawr girl. With her towering brother Adrian (6 ft. 5 in.), and some friends, she was a party to the famed hoax on a British admiral and the entire ship's company of H.M.S. Dreadnought. Disguised as the Emperor of Abyssinia & party (see cut. p. 93), they were brought aboard with due ceremony, barely restrained the captain from ordering a 21-gun salute, got safely away undiscovered...
...candidate will search out feature material, he will follow the scent that leads to strange places. He may tread close on Colonel Apted's heels as that doughty warrior sets out in pursuit of another skunk. Perhaps the opportunity of seeing the Lampoon's funnymen laying a hoax will come his way. He may see the way a police court functions, or follow the Fire Department in action. He may find that much of the imposing marble statuary that decorates Memorial Hall has come only recently from the graves of men portrayed, in the Mount Auburn Cemetery...
Only story of the event was a tiny Associated Press despatch which was followed by silence so complete that wary U. S. editors suspected another hoax. Then it developed that the bike plane's inventor was a well-known oldtime flyer named Enea Bossi, now in charge of stainless steel research at E. G. Budd Manufacturing Co. in Philadelphia. Steelman Bossi, unaware until newshawks descended on him that news of his "aerocycle" had broken in Milan, disproved any hoax by showing motion pictures of himself making the first human-power flight in history in Milan last Sept...
...Montague, refused to let himself be photographed, told no one where he came from or how he made his living, and never entered golf tournaments where he might attract publicity. The rumors were so wild that even when benign Sportswriter Grantland Rice, who is too serious about sport to hoax his public and much too wise to be beguiled by Hollywood hoaxers, wrote a column in which he called Montague one of the world's greatest golfers, no one took him very seriously. When Westbrook Pegler labeled Montague a combination of Paul Bunyan, John Henry, Popeye the Sailor...