Word: libellant
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Remarking that he had maligned no individual, he apologized for his "outspokenness" in the campaign and said, "but I could not do otherwise. I, as a person, do not matter in this fight. Someone has to be the target for ridicule, for insinuation, for libel...
...declare but his genius. It introduces him at the height of his fame, spouting epigrams and penning paradoxes, when his intimacy with young Lord Alfred Douglas has aroused the furious opposition of Douglas' father, the Marquis of Queensberry. Soon Queensberry has goaded Wilde into suing him for libel; the suit is lost and Wilde at once brought to trial on charges of pederasty. He is found guilty and sent to prison for two years. Some time after his release he goes to Paris, wearing out his life in drink, a pitiable but unreformed and unrepentant...
...Libel. For harassed old Moe Annenberg, the week's woes reached a climax when Senator Joseph F. Guffey singled him out for unmeasured denunciation in a campaign speech over Station WFIL. When an advance summary of the speech reached the Inquirer's offices, Annenberg attorneys tried frantically to prevent its delivery. Next morning, swashbuckling Moe made news indeed when, unmindful of political and journalistic tradition, he sued for libel Senator Guffey, Station WFIL and its president, Samuel R. Rosenbaum; Mr. Stern and the Record, which published the full text of the speech...
California, where Senator McAdoo's opponents charged a 5% salary "shakedown" of Federal employes for his campaign fund. Mr. McAdoo's reply: slander & libel by "desperate...
Other observers have other views. When H. L. Mencken was editing the American Mercury he once said to George Jean Nathan: "The three of us are in the same business, libel, but Winchell seems to know where to stop...