Word: libeler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Colonel. For years newspaper feature-writers have refrained from writing Edward Riley Bradley's biography, partly because the Colonel is notoriously secretive about his past, but chiefly because the mere mention of his occupation amounts to libel in most states. Colonel Bradley is a gambler and has been for some 50 of his 75 years. Colonel Bradley himself stilled apprehensive editors' anxieties at the Senate hearing last month when he frankly admitted that his business was that of a "speculator, raiser of race horses and gambler." "I'd gamble on anything," he added...
...complained that the picture originated in the imagination of one who knew nothing about sailors and their habit of spending shore leave playing ping-pong in the Y.M.C.A. The Secretary of the Navy, who may have learned the rudiments of art from recruiting posters, was notified of the libel. It is not likely that the weary farm mothers of Kansas and Idaho, upon whose sons the Navy depends for its enlisted personnel, would ever see the picture, and even if they did, it would be only an expression of something that they firmly believe. But the Secretary took no chances...
Gaetano Salvemini, Lauro de Bosis Professor of Italian Literature, will use three London papers for libel in connection with statements they issued against him recently in the St. Peter's bombing case, it was learned last night. Accused with six others of planning the explosion in the Rome cathedral on July 25, Salvemini indignantly denied the charges which were made against him by the Italian government several weeks...
...feel talking pictures will provide a new branch of the law, being capable of producing both slander and libel at one and the same time. For instance if when Rasputin says 'Natasha, we are going to punish Paul, you and I,' she advances with a simpering smile one inference can be drawn, but if she shrinks back in obvious horror you might draw another inference altogether. I doubt if it is libel to say a woman was raped, because the usual definition of libel is something holding a person up to ridicule, hatred or contempt...
Nevertheless, after viewing the movie several times, the jury decided that, libel or slander, Princess Youssoupov deserved ?25,000 ($126,800) in damages...