Word: plagiarist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...accustomed to seeing his fabulous tale reprinted in unsophisticated journals under the heading "Scientific Notes" or "Nuggets of Fact." Back from the Spanish-American War and the Boxer Uprising, working on the New York Herald, Spiderman Paine had the fabrication brought to his attention again in 1902 when a plagiarist tried to sell it to him for publication in the Herald. Soon thereafter, Reporter Paine gave up newspaper work for fiction and became a successful author of novels, historical studies and stories for boys...
...into an engagement, then ran away. In Paris he also got the idea of starting a literary magazine called Rhythm, went back to London and started it. There he fell under the spell of blustering Frank Harris, worshipped him as a hero until he found he was a plagiarist. When he tried to salve his sore emotions by going on a bender, came back with a case of gonorrhea, Murry felt he had touched bottom...
...Mussolini is his exceptionally wide knowledge of science and philosophy. . . . There are some people too vain to seek advice; Mussolini seeks it wherever it may be found, and therefore fulfills Richelieu's condition of wisdom and character in a statesman. . . . He is the world's most accomplished plagiarist...
...Once a newshawk (for Milwaukee papers and New York World) she is now newsworthy. In 1911 she won first prize in a short-story contest in which there were 15,000 entries. In 1921 her play Miss Lulu Belt won the Pulitzer Prize. Last month she publicly forgave a plagiarist (TIME. Sept. 15). Other books: Preface to a Life, Faint Perfume, Birth, Friendship Village...
Plague of every magazine publisher is the plagiarist. Last week Liberty, nickel weekly, announced in an editorial...