Word: libelous
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...Gogh was "a crazy galoot who cut off his own ear to spite a woman"; Gauguin was a failure who ran off to the South Seas because he couldn't make the grade, who painted distorted pictures over which "the shapely natives had every reason to bring libel suits." "At their worst," said Mr. Coburn firmly, "[their paintings] resembled the crude elemental expressions which nitwits affix to sidewalks, barn doors and elsewhere-especially elsewhere." To him Boston was "a community which today possesses the best school of painting in existence anywhere...
...Trade Unionists behind the Anglo-French imperialist war machine." In the course of the articles the Worker's bush-browed crack writer, Ben Francis, called Sir Walter & friends such names as "lickspittles" and industrialists' "lackeys" who would "do down" the British workingman. The Worker was sued for libel...
Once when Sullens tied into Paul Johnson, then a judge, Johnson sued him for libel, and to Sullens' disgust a News official settled out of court for a reputed $18,000. On the day of the settlement judge Johnson bought a big new limousine and cruised up & down Jackson's Capitol Street, derisively honking as he passed the Daily News building. Said the Governor on the stump last summer: "I'm still spending that buzzard's money. I'm liable to be spending some more of it too when this campaign is over...
...fils. Recently Doctor Jean and Son Raymond took their lawyer to see Une Petite Fortune, a new Yves Mirande film in which a village doctor gets the local mayor to remove warning signs from a dangerous crossroads, waxes rich patching up motorists when they crash. "Libel!" roared the lawyer, and Director Mirande was promptly sued by Denis pére et fils. "My film is a pure fantasy, based on the incident at Mâcon, but in nowise aimed at les Docteurs Denis," cried Defendant Mirande. The entire Macon Tribunal traveled 45 miles to Lyon, viewed Une Petite Fortune...
...management signed up with A. F. of L., kept on printing papers. But when the Guild began picketing advertisers, the management sued the Guild and 45 members for libel and conspiracy to incite a boycott. The Guild collected about $120,000 in special assessments to support the strikers; the strikers kept warm in donated clothing, got married, had babies, died...