Word: hoaxing
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...month ago, advertising trade papers carried news of the death of "Byron Keating, 59, after a heart attack attributed to overwork." Actually, Byron Keating was killed by his own parents-the two Cincinnati copywriters from whose lively imaginations he had sprung to hoax the advertising world...
...witch legend is a matter for hooting and disbelief in adjoining Little Waltham. Little Walthamites in road crews assure me they have moved the stone a score of times in as many years. . . . It is my reluctant conclusion that the witch of Scrapfaggot Green is-to be blunt-a hoax...
Five Chicago chemists disturbed the case with cries of "Hoax!" But the next night 17 families on one block reported that they had been gassed. Victims continued to say the mysterious substance made them vomit and sometimes affected the use of arms & legs...
Australians were chuckling last week over a literary hoax as fantastic as a duckbilled platypus. Editor Max Harris, of Adelaide's long-haired little review, Angry Penguins, had introduced the work of a new poet named Ern Malley with a 30-page rhapsody explaining, with deadly and Dadaistic earnestness, why Malley was "one of the two giants of contemporary Australian poetry...
...some real lawyer trouble to worry about. His new book, Yankee Lawyer: The Autobiography of Ephraim Tutt, had caused considerable pain to the person of Lewis R. Linet. Said Philadelphia Lawyer Linet, suing for $3.50 worth of fraudulence: "I bought the book thinking it was nonfiction. [It] is a hoax upon the plaintiff and the reading public...