Word: hoaxing
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...Hoax...
...crescendoed into nine U. S. editions in two months.* Britons capitulated even earlier to the vital, indiscreet Cleone when Lord Darling publicly declared: "Her diary must rank with ' that of Pepys' as a record of its time." Only an occasional reviewer dismissed the work as "that diverting hoax." Last week the "diarist" proclaimed herself. She is Magdalen King-Hall, 19, daughter of His Britannic Majesty's onetime Admiral Commanding on the Coast of Ireland (1906-08), Sir George Fowler King-Hall, K. C. B., retired...
...matter what the scantiness of news may be, newspapers these days almost never publish a hoax. The joke may be widely enjoyable...
...exasperated editor might perpetrate a hoax of this sort. But he will never meddle with a religious subject. That was left to a Canadian Modernist during the ten-day session of the World's Christian Fundamentals Association at Toronto the beginning of the month. W. Harold Young, a Canadian correspondent of the Christian Century, gleefully tells the story in the current issue of that periodical...
...Fundamentalist convention, the clever writer found his opportunity, sent the manuscript without comment to a Dr. Brown, who based his main argument for the authenticity of the Jonah story on this "discovery." Toronto papers this time reported Dr. Brown and his "proof." Then they were told of the hoax. Dr. Brown went away from there...