Word: libelous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cliches are hauled out once more. No Place To Run is supposedly about events in the Mississippi of the present and Stone is not writing fantasy. In fact, he goes out of his way to inject as many contemporary references as possible while evading the law of libel and slander. Without in any way acting as an apologist for the South, I am prepared to believe that the governor of Mississippi is not a boozed up old lecher who only did one decent thing in his disgusting life, which...
...Socrates in particular. The fact that Socrates was not a valid representative of the Sophists made no difference; a well-known whipping dog was needed, and fairness be damned. Ironically, Aristophanes could vent his aristocratic and antisocratic bias only in a highly democratic community that permitted slander, libel, blasphemy, and indecency. Socrates (played with gusto and the proper amount of eccentricity by Upton Brady) appears as the pettifogging proprietor of a "think-shop," a sort of Rube Goldberg of the intellect with his head in the clouds of the title; and his students stoop over so their brains can look...
...Greene, then active as a movie critic, wrote a magazine article which referred to, among other things, her "dimpled depravity." In 1938, Shir ley sued for libel, won a $10,000 settlement...
...outright, A & M, the only such three-man firm in the city, declared that it was easily identifiable. A & M admitted that one of the trio had two felony convictions (not for burglary), but the other two had clean records. The firm's members filed a $175,000 libel suit...
...this was too much for Judge Malcolm E. Douglas. He found Watson in contempt of court, and imposed an unusual penalty: he held Watson in default in the libel suit-which, in effect, ruled him guilty of libel and barred him from participating in the trial or the determination of damages. Judge Douglas said he would determine the damages to be assessed against Watson following a jury trial of the case against the Post-Intelligencer's publishers (Hearst) and three restaurants...