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...writer was established, but the naturalist was not. Naturalist John Burroughs called Naturalist Ernest Thompson Seton a nature faker. So the younger man wrote his learned, monumental (eight volumes) Lives of Game Animals (sales: a piddling 2,650 copies). Later the John Burroughs Memorial Association made amends by giving the still-living naturalist a medal...
...Krebs had shocked U.S. readers with his offhand account of a lurid, turbulent life as an agent of both the Ogpu and Gestapo. He later admitted he had added the experiences of other men "to make the book as effective as possible," was roundly denounced by Communists as a faker. But his fame was his undoing: he admitted that he had once before been deported by the U.S., that he had committed perjury -both grounds for deportation...
...considerable action, and started over half the games that fall. With the advent of Dick Harlow and his spinning offense, Hedblom shifted to fullback. Of first-string caliber, he had the bad luck for the next two years of being substitute for the great Vernon Struck, the 'magnificent faker' and probably the best-known exponent of the deceptive Harlow offense. Nevertheless, although overshadowed by Struck, he managed to impress the coaches with his determined and spirited play, and remained second-string fullback for his Junior and Senior years...
Harlow confides that he still does not "know whether Forte or Morgan is the better right end," and compares Don McNicol to Vernon Struck "the Magnificent Faker" of the 1937 team. Generalities are kept to a minimum by Harlow, but he does deviate enough to suggest that "I have found through many bitter lessons that there is no substitute for experience, and that Sophomores are a bad risk, particularly in the backfield...
Flynn: "... A mucker who has run amuck ... a demagogue of demagogues . . . the greatest faker on the American political scene ... the most super-colossal hypocrite . . . clown . . . this mountebank Mayor." Farley: "Breast-beating faker." Lehman: ". . . Shameless, scurrilous . . . insulting and vicious...