Word: sues
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Prepared to sue for libel, Mr. Childs investigated, learned to his further indignation that the story had been rewritten from an official press release of the Navy Department...
...Through tedious scenes of polo, parties and Palm Beach, this picture (from Rupert Hughes's novel) indicts the shallow rich. Penelope Newbold (Carole Lombard), seeking the 100% husband, has divorced one 60 per-center, is engaged to Bill Hanaway (Ricardo Cortez), a "sportsman," quoted about 70. Seeing Bill with Sue (Juliette Compton) in his arms, Penelope marks him down 30 points and elopes with a Viennese doctor who runs a sanitorium for wayward girls. Bill follows, wins her, conveniently dies from heart disease attributable to alcoholism, athletic and sexual excesses; and Penelope, proving her worth by nursing in the sanitorium...
...plight of Town Topics is ignominious compared to its flamboyant rascality of three decades ago, so is Editor Augustus Ralph Keller colorless, small-scale compared to the vivid colonel. Editor Keller is already awaiting trial on a charge of criminal libel. Col. Mann had the temerity to sue the late Publisher Peter F. Collier and Editor Norman Hapgood of Collier's for libel. As a result of that fruitless sortie, the colonel was prosecuted on a charge of perjury for his barefaced denial that the "O. K., W. D. M." at the bottom of a document was his signature. Famed...
...missed, and in London 50 years later. Here the faint recollection of her deeds by officials who have come to decorate her gives the play an ironical and momentary lift. What The Lady with a Lamp need's is more lifts. A Widow in Green- Sue (Claiborne Foster) meets Tommy Shannon (Ernest Glendenning) in an English tea shop. To him the brief relationship that follows is delightful companionship. To Spinsterish Sue it is a prelude to marriage. When he suddenly rushes away to Africa. Sue tells everyone in town that she has married Tommy, rushes away to America. There...
...Gassier's charges. He said that the attack indicated the decline of "charitable spirit" and the troubled condition of Christianity. Nonetheless, he respected the Catholic Church. Though Episcopalian himself, he said he was related to twelve priests, three bishops, one archbishop, one monk. He announced he would sue Mgr. Gassier for defamation and libel. The American Civil Liberties Union, always happy to have a cause to champion, offered to support a suit to recover this year's salary in full and a mandamus action to compel a public hearing. Editor Henry Louis Mencken of the American Mercury sent congratulations, said...