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...ladies drew near him, however, so Captain Frankau proceeded to relate a "joke" which connoisseurs present declared was both ancient, somewhat pointless and entirely offensive. In London, hearing this news and wondering how "that little writer chap" had ever been mistaken in the States for an official Conservative representative, Conservatives were irked...
...them. If the injured one sues you, it will do you no good to discharge the cub reporter. You have a libel suit on your hands. You have to prove that he is, as the case may be, "an itchy old toad," "a tool of profiteers," "a damaged-goods chap." Following is a glossary, compiled last week by Editor and Publisher, of words and phrases each one of which has figured in a libel action won by the plaintiff...
Anarchist ; bankrupt ; blackleg ; black-sheep ; brainstorm ; briber ; crook ; crooked ; damaged-goods chap ; destitute ; extreme poverty...
...match ended. Mitchell had won the Roehampton Club's prize of 200 pounds with an ease that made Britishers beam happily above their pipe-bowls in the bar that evening and lend their tongues to prophesy: "Wait till he meets the American. . . . Wait till he meets that Hagen chap...
Mayor C. A. Tetley of Farmington said: "I remember Asbury as a boy here, and he seemed like any other young chap. I think he must have got a little out of balance since he left Farmington. We resent chiefly the aspersion cast on all** the women of Farmington...