Word: libelous
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...little magazine but a considerable financial success, published by the sophisticates of the metropolis for their would-be-sophisticate fellow townsfolk)last week published an article titled "The First Lady" purporting to be an intimate portrait of Mrs. Coolidge, by one Paul A. Burns. Carefully skirting the shoals of libel, his thesis ended very neatly in the port of Lese Majest...
...opprobrious epithets, either invented by himself or repeated after a third person, you are, if the epithets get published, responsible for their accuracy to the person described by them. If the injured one sues you, it will do you no good to discharge the cub reporter. You have a libel suit on your hands. You have to prove that he is, as the case may be, "an itchy old toad," "a tool of profiteers," "a damaged-goods chap." Following is a glossary, compiled last week by Editor and Publisher, of words and phrases each one of which has figured...
...Word omitted to avoid libel...
...through with Americans. I have lost all respect for Americans, because they have hounded me and by underhanded methods, such as the employment of Sachs, have tried to throw me into jail. But the accounts are not closed. I will file a counter suit for damages and libel against Sachs...
...Jews consider his portrayal of the synagog as a fallen, ineffectual institution, a libel on their religion. Vandals befouled this particular mural with ink some years back...