Word: hoaxes
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Thus 28 rueful French deputies discovered that Poldavia and the Poldavians, their Foreign Minister and embossed stationery, were just another hoax of Royalist Daudet and his followers, the Camelots du Roi ("hawkers of the King"). Their object again was to prove that all Republicans are either imbeciles or ignoramuses...
...high glee at the success of their latest hoax. Editor Daudet reprinted all 28 letters to the Minister of Poldavia...
Daily Mail: "Either never left Croyden in the airplane ... or disappeared in a motor car when the plane landed. . . prodigious hoax...
Interest centred on the fortune that could have been made, last week, by selling Loewenstein shares short; and on the hope that Ogre Loewenstein had engineered a hoax, a coup, had sold himself short and vanished with a profit of millions...
...this "suppression" had not been a hoax to increase circulation, if there had really been a suppressed story to serve as its background, the results would undoubtedly have been similar but vastly greater in degree. The curiosity for readers would have had something substantial to feed upon and suppression would have defeated its own purposes, as I believe it usually does...