Word: hoaxing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Couple of years ago the Yale News startled Yale men with an announcement about the impending Yale-Michigan football game: that 800 eager Michigan co-eds planned to invade New Haven in search of mates. The story was a hoax. Consequently, when the News printed a similar story last month, Yale men yawned. Said the News: The day of the Brown game would be Sadie Hawkins Day: any girl who cared to buy game tickets and pay expenses might go to New Haven and grab herself a Yale escort. To their consternation, Yale men soon learned that this time...
...Powell is a $22-a-week comptometer clerk with three practical-joking friends who paste together a bogus telegram notifying him he has won the contest. By dint of some improbable inefficiency in the Maxford House organization, he collects the check, spends a sizable slice of it before the hoax is bared...
...page indictment. Into the jug again went Nazi Leader Arnulf Fuhrmann and seven of his disciples. Führer Fuhrmann cheerfully admitted hatching the plot, insisted it was just a joke. After reports had been published of Nazi plans to invade Patagonia, he chuckled, he had built up the hoax to tickle the ribs of his fellow Germans in Argentina...
...last week The Daily Princetonian carried the In & Out Club's first contribution to the university. It was a photograph; professing to be a composite picture of Princeton's 2,100 students-the typical Princeton undergraduate, 1940-style. Next day the composite was found to be a hoax-a retouched photo of swashbuckling Cinemactor Errol Flynn, minus mustache and with a crew haircut. Said the unabashed In & Out Club: "What's wrong with the picture...
Three undergraduate editors had concocted the hoax. They said on the editorial page: "Today's front page . . is the best argument we can give against war. ... In black on white . . . you can see just what war will mean...