Word: hoax
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lamont Dupont, the original and most lavish hoax, combines heady extravagance with a condescending democracy toward classmates. He "enjoys the sport of kings--falconry"; he has been seen, according to posters, at the Abyssinian royal ball, the Jamaican government congress, and other aristocratic functions. Voting against him is futile since "he owns us all anyway," but freshmen should give him their ballots since "he has condescended...
...moment there is actually an empoverished aristocratic female wasting away in Paris. About half of the few surviving Russian royalists accept her as their princess, the daughter of Czar Nicholas II, but most of the world either ignores her existence or attacks her as an obvious hoax. The royal problem or mystery of Anastasia is romantic and intriguing. The movie about her, however...
...back in the fall of 1903, a Harvard team was nearly upset by a hoax that has since become legendary--the hidden ball trick of the Carlisle Indians...
...fraud practiced by the English, who cling to the belief that if something awkward is ignored, it will go away. Gerald Middleton, handsome, sixtyish and a kind of historian emeritus among English medievalists, has long repressed a suspicion that the 1912 discovery of the Melpham Tomb was a grandiose hoax on a par with Piltdown Man. The remains of a 7th century Christian bishop named Eorpwald had been found in the tomb. But in the coffin rested a shockingly priapic fertility idol. Ever since, disconcerted historians had been trying to adjust their theories to this evidence that the good bishop...
City Councillor Al Vellucci yesterday told the CRIMSON that Thursday's offer to the University by a "leading Peterborough citizen" of 400 acres for a relocated College is "all a planned hoax by a group of Peterborough businessmen to take away our colleges and industries...