Word: plagiarists
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...Gargantua: lowering brows, a cast in one eye, rubbery sprawling lips, and a slide-away chin. Women fell all over him, and he returned the compliment. He attacked them in private, pawed them in public, on occasion bedded as many as three a day. He was a braggart, a plagiarist, a liar and a bully. He threw coffee in Publisher Horace Liveright's face and once challenged Sinclair Lewis to a duel. Maudlin music made him teary and flattery made him fatuous. He was a skinflint who haggled over cab fares, a spendthrift who swaggered in custom suits...
Professors Robert G. Hallwachs and Thomas Riggs Jr. of the English Department became suspicious of the thesis written by a student in their department. When he turned out to be a close friend of the first plagiarist, they went through the same checking process with the same results. "Style cannot be counterfeited and you can always sense something wrong when a man's work is not his own," said Hallwachs...
Most newsmen should know that to call a lawyer a "shyster," an author a "plagiarist," or a doctor a "quack" is usually libelous. But it may surprise them to learn that praising a doctor may be libelous. In Louisiana, a doctor collected damages after the New Orleans Picayune praised an operation he had performed. His claim: the story was, in effect, an ad for him; medical ethics prohibit advertising; his medical standing was therefore damaged...
...ever so sincere and modest in his self-devotion," wrote Marie in her secret notebook. When her husband discovered the notebook he was furious. "A bad wife is to her husband as rottenness to his bones," he roared. Screamed Marie: "Do not provoke me . . . you Stinkard, Base Slubberdegullion, Cheesy Plagiarist, Immortal Whip-Arse, Eater of Stinking Beef!" Poet Milton hurriedly sent her home to learn manners, and Mother Powell shrieked that he deserved to be whipped. But after a few years Father Powell saw that the Parliamentary forces were going to win the Civil War, so he sent Marie back...
...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...