Word: hoaxing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...letter as an example of growing anti-Soviet feeling. London's less credulous News Review checked up, found that there was no Selhurst School, never had been. H. Rochester Sneath turned out to be two Cambridge undergraduates who had invested $1.60 in letterheads to perpetrate the best hoax of the spring...
...final volume, H. L. Mencken has had his say on the peculiarities of U.S. speech. The final volume, like its predecessors, is a vast miscellany, ill-arranged, bulging at the seams with inconsequential information, festooned with footnotes in such profusion as to give it the appearance of a gigantic hoax. Its elaborate cross references sometimes seem soberly professorial, sometimes like parodies on scholarship. The whole work now runs to 2,880 pages. It is surely one of the great curiosities of literature...
Into the record went Henry's written polemic of 11,000 words, while, with Running Mate Glen Taylor at his side, he read abstracts from it. The Marshall Plan, he said, was a "blueprint" for war, a "colossal hoax" on the people of the U.S., and would "impose Washington and Wall Street intervention in the internal affairs of the participating countries." He had a counter proposal: the U.S. should give $50 billion to the United Nations to be spent for relief over the next ten years...
Died. Albert Mussey Johnson, 75, retired insurance executive, grubstaker of "Death Valley Scotty" and his legend of a fabulous gold mine; after an operation; in Los Angeles. Johnson met Desert Rat Scott in 1904, thereafter kept him supplied with enough money to maintain-for 26 years-the hoax of a private bonanza. Johnson built Scotty a $3,000,000 castle in the '30s, revealed in 1941 that he had also "lent" him $500,000 over three decades. Chuckled Johnson: "He paid me back in laughs...
...instituted the "hoax" deserve the thanks of the college for emphasizing the lax manner in which Council supervised elections are conducted. the men who actually supervised the election were "victims of the system." Final responsibility for permitting conditions under which such a thing could happen must be placed on the attitude of the Council as a whole, which has failed to follow the simplest and most obvious recommendations of its own Committee on class Affairs...