Word: hoaxing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that temerity be not vain, one is tempted to suggest that the two humorous undergraduate publications look to their laurels. Youth has been quick to appraise and to emulate the form if not the substance of the diversion common to distraught journalists, hapless explorers, and brilliant financiers. To the hoax it has brought the charm of unflagging devotion and ingenuous extravaganza; but in maturity there remains ever that godlike leaven of simplicity which is the preface to credibility...
...general opinion of the members of the Harvard group that could be reached last night was that the whole affair was a pure hoax. But complete, detailed accounts of all the sessions held in Emerson 11 in 1925 are contained in a hundred-page report, "Margery Harvard Veritas." Although signed statements of the professors testify to the fact that there was no trickery involved, the final verdict of the group was that the phenomena were not well-attested boxes on the professors laps, megaphones moved around the table, lights glowed, and "Margery" moved freely around in her compartment, although wired...
...work direct to museum or collector, never, so far as investigators could discover, pretended that they were anything but his own work. Nor did he make money. Dealers paid him about $200 each for works they sold for as much as $100,000. Even these payments were tardy. The hoax was first exposed when Dossena sued one Alfredo Fasoli, antique dealer, for back pay. If Alceo Dossena is not the greatest forger, he certainly is one of the few imitators of antiquities whose work still has real value after the hoax has been exposed. Last week his surplus stock...
After vainly striving to snatch the lime-light away from Prince Romanoff, L. Donovan Bisbee ocC., well-known undergraduate hoax and prolific correspondent, committed suicide, in his study in Leverett House yesterday morning. It is generally rumored that the mid-year exams were too much for his neurotic perpetrators. With a sigh of regret, the more eligible society matrons in Boston and vicinity will remove Bisbee's name from their door lists, for though he never appeared, he was much in demand...
...elicited scorn: "Cleverest pseudo-scientific hoax yet perpetrated" (American Engineering Council). "Intellectual mah jong . . . Greenwich Village economics" (University of Chicago...