Word: hoaxes
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...leaders of the society, still identified only by numbers in convict fashion, have assured the CRIMSON that the affair is not a hoax, that there really will be a parade with band, torches, and all the conventional trappings of a political procession...
...Journal of the American Medical Association, after an investigation "does not hesitate to express the opinion that the so-called Benjamin Franklin Fund does not exist and that the alleged major award to Banning is as big a hoax as the resurrection stunt at the Albany County Hospital." The latter allusion refers to a former incident in which Banning was involved. During the summer of 1923 newspaper editors received four typewritten pages, legal size, purporting to come from the Albany Chamber of Commerce. It dealt with the "most remarkable case in modern medical science" that had recently happened...
...Doren; letters of the late James Gibbons Huneker; The Aesthete: Model 1924 by Ernest Boyd; an article on Hiram W. Johnson by John W. Owens of the Baltimore Sun; Two Years of Disarmament by "a man who, because of his official position, cannot sign this article"; The Communist Hoax by a member of the staff of the extinct New York Call (Socialist) ; The Drool Method in History by a professor of Smith College; Santayana at Cambridge by Margaret Münsterberg, daughter of the late Dr. Hugo Münsterberg...
...good editorial judgment would also have indicated the waste-basket as the proper depositary for a letter which the CRIMSON printed a few days ago over the signature of an alleged alumnus whose name does not appear in the Alumni Directory. This letter, quite apart from the apparent hoax of its authorship, would not have been given space in any reputable publication edited by full-grown men, for its contents were insulting to a considerable element in our citizenship...
...Riddle of Life--A Study: and "Gossamer: The Riddle of the Future--A Fancy". These are highly fantastic titles, but no more so than the subject matter warrants. One is forced to read several chapters before one is convinced that the whole thing is not a great, super-developed hoax, and from then on, the utmost concentration is required to follow the writer's logic at all. The first essay consists of a most elaborate and painstaking demonstration of the theory that all modern and ancient languages have grown out of one fundamental languages and alphabet, whose very sounds...