Word: libelous
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...country likes him rugged. Possibly as a sop, Republic gives the customers some extra favors. Long-legged Tap Dancer Ann Miller (Too Many Girls) swings through a lively dance routine, croons a torchy ballad. Jimmy Durante garbles his Bronxese with dialogue like: "I resemble dat remark! . . . Dat's libel! . . . It's libel to make...
Cases involving landlord and tenant are the most common, with divorce and separation running close seconds. Five cases of libel and slander, and two involving estates of incompetents were handled last year...
...call others liars, rascals and thieves, terms he applies to Republicans generally. . . . Roosevelt is a pretty good liar himself. . . . Roosevelt lies and curses in a most disgusting way; he gets drunk, too, and that not infrequently, and all his intimates know about it." (T. R. sued for libel, asked for nominal damages...
Nazis in Uruguay felt so cocky last week that they threatened to bring a libel suit against Dr. Hugo Fernandez Artucio, professor of philosophy at the University of the Republic in Montevideo. It was Dr. Fernandez Artucio's book, Nazis in Uruguay, that touched off a Congressional investigation into fifth-column activities early last summer, caused a "good-will"' visit of two U. S. cruisers to Montevideo, got twelve Nazi leaders jugged on charges of plotting to turn the country into a German agricultural colony (TIME, July1). After the excitement died down the charges were quietly dropped...
...most of their spare time was spent rehearsing. Stokowski, who took no salary for the tour, complained that enthusiastic South Americans had mobbed him for souvenirs-coat buttons, handkerchiefs, gloves. Only time he lost the Stokowski temper was in Montevideo, where the program carried a biography stating the old libel that his real name was Stokes.* The concert was delayed for half an hour while the offending programs were gathered...