Word: libelous
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From gross income you may exclude alimony, damages collected for breach of promise, alienation of affections, libel or slander. You may deduct money spent to get a job, automobile expenses (including fines for negligent driving), the cost of dental work to replace teeth knocked out in pursuit of duty, money spent on unsuccessful inventions...
...least afraid of incurring libel suits, for he claims to have consulted legal authorities on the matter. "Also, the school committee probably realizes that you should never sue a person for libel, for he's 'libel' to prove he's correct," punned Kerins...
...case of the University vs. tutoring schools is a long, fifteen-round bout in which, for the past few years, no very decisive blows have been struck. Outside the University, Manter Hall School last year landed a light left when they sued Time Magazine for libel for saying they did ghost-writing and were awarded all of six cents. The blow was only important in so far as it established the legal position of the school in relation to the University. Yesterday, however, the University connected with a sharp right when a bureau offering a review in criminal law called...
When the Frango put in at its pier off Staten Island, N. Y., Lieutenant Midtylng hopped ashore, made his report. Twenty-four hours later U. S. officials seized the ship's $500,000 cargo, sealed it, filed a libel action against 423 tons of her whale...
Other assorted intimates are Winston Churchill, Noel Coward, Novelist Rebecca West. Best U. S. friend is Wall Street Plunger Bernard E. ("Sell 'Em Ben") Smith, who met Beaverbrook in 1930 when he sued him for libel.* Ben Smith sells the Beaver U. S. airplanes, talks to him several times a month on the transatlantic telephone and consults him on his own British publishing venture, Cavalcade, a TiMElike news magazine...