Word: hoaxing
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...Hunt & Hoax. Meantime, while Congress prayed that the Lindberghs be further spared "the bread of affliction" and nations and cities all over the world poured sympathy on the bereaved young couple, the country's law agencies took a final hitch in their belts and started on a desperate, determined man hunt. Five days' hunting brought to light the second major hoax in the case...
...Episcopal Bishop Manning of New York ordered his flock to pray for the infant's safe return. School children and 500,000 Companions of the Forest of America also prayed, as did Philadelphia Lutherans, New Jersey Methodists. Crowds in Buenos Aires watched bulletins, took the whole affair for a hoax the first day. Herbert Hoover spurred Government sleuths from a Cabinet meeting. Mrs. Hoover, cruising in Florida, sent ashore for news. In Chicago Col. Robert Isham Randolph of the "Secret Six" warned the nation again about the rich, swift-growing racket of abduction for extortion, helped circulate a new gangland...
...Perhaps the first Surrealiste Act was the Creation of Man. The creation of the material world was naturalistic enough. Whereas the beginning of Life, whether by the Finger of God, or evolved from green algae, is to us something of transcendant importance, astonishing; sensational, incomprehensible, practicably incredible, perhaps a hoax, not supernatural but in fact super-real. And whatever the possible logical explanation may prove, we cannot deny that the illogical mystery has been for centuries our zest in living...
...young barrister, the girl is forced to accept employment as nursery governess to his son. Disguised in spectacles, wig, puff-sleeves and a cockney accent, she interrupts the barrister (Leslie Howard) to bring him cups of tea and bouillon. It takes him a long time to penetrate her hoax and when he does so he is nearly deprived of his reward by one of his clients who has been more perceptive. All this is as innocuous as it sounds, but more amusing. Good shots: Leslie Howard going to bed, on orders from his son's nursemaid; Ann Harding having...
...produced at the Globe Theatre in London, where, on the opening night, it was greeted by laughter. If "Vortigen" had been successful Ireland planned to bring forth a whole series of allegedly Shakespearian plays. As it was, the production of the play only contributed to the disclosure of the hoax...