Word: copycatting
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...Unemployment and Depression. Debater Taft asked voters, did they want an independent or a dominated Congress?, demanded protective tariffs on pottery, glassware, oil. Debater Bulkley indignantly denied that he was a Roosevelt rubber stamp, called Candidate Taft a belated New Dealer and, so far as his platform went, a copycat. Afterwards they shook hands. Next debate: at Dayton this week, Mr. Bulkley to frame the question...
Last week Author Kay Boyle published a book at least a hundred years old. No copycat, she simply revealed the historical fact that she and her fellow-romanticists (Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner) have succeeded in bringing off a 20th Century Romantic Revival. Like their early 19th Century predecessors, they have rediscovered the romanticism of the neurotic. To a generation that discusses nightmares in daylight, the nightmare-stuff these writers handle seems the only thing that dreams are made...
George's version was like Dalhart's but it was the likeness that made Judge Davis pronounce George the copycat. Dalhart learned the song from an older Whitter phonograph record in 1923, made several mistakes which are also in George's version. The engineer's name was Steve. Dalhart did not understand it on the record so called him Pete. Average, in stanza three, makes no sense. It was airbrakes in the original version...
...appropriated Mr. E. E. Slocum's highly entertaining contribution about The Fighting Fish of Bangkok and deliberately used it as my own in a story written for the Boston Post, Mr. Stanton is (can you hear me now?) a liar and you are another unless you withdraw that Copycat caption...
...Copycat Cunningham...