Word: libellant
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Lest I be sued for libel I will admit that the rules committee, whoever they may be, and football men in general, have surpassing intelligence, except in football. For them their football world is flat and they want it flat
Honorable Sir:--As president of the Society for American-Japanese Peace, I ask you, on behalf of the Japanese residents of your city to prohibit the proposed performances at the Boston Opera House of that scandalous libel on the people of Japan, "The Mikado...
...deadlock. In his criticism he has shown the greatest discretion in realizing that anything he might say to our discredit would soon be multiplied a hundred-fold. For nations are very much like individuals who do not understand each other, and gossip soon kindles into libel and hatred. By applying the highest principles of individual to national morality, Lord Grey has set a precedent which makes permanent peace less an idealist's dream...
...fraught with death unless they so imminently threaten immediate interference with the lawful and pressing purposes of the law that an immediate check is required to save the country. I wholly disagree with the arguments of the Government that the First Amendment left the common law as to seditious libel in force. History seems to me against the nation. Only the emergency that makes it immediately dangerous to leave the correction of evil counsels to time warrants making any exception to the sweeping command. "Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech." Of course, I am speaking only...
...Harvard Aesthetes" and is by Dorian Abbott '15. It is an account of the exotic at Harvard, both past and present. Some of the characters are easily recognizable. "Cigarette" is obviously Alan Seeger, and if I did not feel for the war-time purse of the CRIMSON in defending libel suits, I could catalogue a rather distinguished array of aesthetes referred to. The moral attitude of the writer is clear: he frowns upon gin-drinking and purple lights, and sneers at aesthetes who use cologne and wear fillets...