Word: hoaxing
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...grant came from an old Canta-Drigian named Frank Duerdin Perrott. When Perrott first made his offer in 1919 -at the start of the spiritualistic inquiries of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle-the university huffily said no; it suspected a hoax. In 1927-the year Perrott died-Cambridge relented. In the 24 years since...
...Cynical Hoax." Labor's manifesto made it plain that the argument over wage controls was only the climax of "a whole series of shocking developments which we find insupportable." Ever since mobilization began to take shape, labor's nose had been out of joint. The price program was "a cynical hoax"; the wage program was "inflexible, inequitable and unworkable"; the tax program bore down on the working man, favored corporations and the rich...
City councillor John D. Lynch said yesterday that he thought the scheduled debate with Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. '38, associate professor of History, on "How to Combat Communism in the United States" was a "big hoax...
...sponsors of the debate, the democratic Club, assured Lynch that the debate is no hoax and will come of as announced; 8 p.m. tomorrow at Emerson...
...Albert Morris . . . expert on anthropology . . . declared that the bean pot was definitely authentic and 'at least 50 years old . . .' " Following the sound rule of never trying to make a chump of a city editor, Wood also candidly tipped the city desks that it was just a polite hoax...