Word: hoaxing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hearstly Hoax. In 1898, Hearst sent him to Cuba to wait for the Spanish-American War. (When Remington complained that there was no war, Hearst, in a cable that unfriendly Hearst biographers love to quote, wired: "You furnish the pictures; I'll furnish...
...bald-faced economic imperialism in the Far East was revealed by Sheeks, who quoted Senator Tydings "The whole philosophy is to keep the Philippines economically even though we lose them politically." Sheeks scored the entire policy as "a hoax as cynical and as tragic as any in history...
...Disjointed TIME apologizes to Reader Bundenthal for unwittingly abetting a hoax, suspects that some brazen G.I. has found a new way of getting even with his sergeant...
Epilogue: slick, fashionable Portraitist Jean-Gabriel Domergue, who perpetrated the hoax, asked the public to guess, by ballot, which and what the jokers were. Only one voter found the Cassatt, no one spotted the Whistler...
Last week Paris was enjoying its first public art hoax since...