Word: hoaxing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gagarin's alleged space flight, as reported is so full of contradictions as to be unbelievable. Your naive acceptance of this Russian hoax as truth is an insult to the intelligence of every thinking American and does a grave injustice to those engaged in our own space program...
...masterpiece at the elegant Excelsior Gallery in Mexico City in 1958. Most of the Campalans paintings in the accompanying exhibition were snapped up. Said Famed Muralist David Siqueiros, thoroughly duped: "I knew Campalans well in Paris. Orozco liked him very much." A few weeks later Aub confessed his hoax. Mexicans fumed, then laughed embarrassedly...
...avant-garde critic might use about a genuine abstraction: "The huge central element, generally globular in shape, is the very apotheosis of the inertness of matter." It was an amusing satire on the prevalent gobbledygook, and by implication at least, it lumped all abstract expressionism together as one big hoax...
...purge by F.D.R. in 1938, Tydings won re-election by a record plurality, ranked third in senatorial service by July 1950 when, during two hours of inspired invective, he summarized a subcommittee report labeling McCarthy's charge of Communist penetration of the State Department "a fraud and a hoax" on the U.S. public. Defeated that fall by politically unknown John Marshall Butler, who was actively backed by McCarthy in a gutter campaign featuring a phony composite photograph showing Tydings in apparently friendly conversation with Communist Earl Browder, Tydings won nomination to the Senate in 1956 but withdrew from...
...that Joe Kennedy had given Jackie a million dollars not to divorce Jack. An Ohio woman remarked darkly that "she's both French and Catholic. The wine will flow in the White House." Gossip columnists reported seriously that Jackie was not pregnant-that it was all an elaborate hoax to remove her from the campaign scene. Her biggest battle-the affair of the sable underwear-was touched off when Women's Wear Daily reported that Jackie and her mother-in-law spend $30,000 a year on French clothes. Jackie retorted that she could not possibly spend that...