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"Look at this base, libelous article," Judy ejaculated, spreading the paper on the table. With an expression of amused toleration as of one who must bear the whims of a spoiled child, Edith drew the paper in front of her while Molly and Judy seated themselves on the arms of her chair and read over her shoulders.
In most of the states it is provided by their constitutions or by law, that the truth may be given in evidence, and if it shall appear to the jury "that the matter charged as libelous is true, and was published with good motives and for justifiable ends, the party shall be acquitted."
I’ll confess one weakness of mine, Karamazov, just to you, since it’s our first meeting, so that you may understand my character at once. I hate being asked my age, more than that ... and in fact ... there’s a libelous story going about me, that last week I played robbers with the preparatory boys.
At bottom he was all right and a good-hearted giant, without any harm in him, for it is no harm to bark, if one stops there and does not bite, and it is no harm to be an ass, if one is content to bray and not kick. If this vast structure of brawn and muscle and vanity and foolishness seemed to have a libelous tongue, what of it?
"In history they are all false" a sufficiently broad statement "in literature all libelous" also a sufficiently sweeping statement, coming from a critic who notes that we are "a people who are peculiarly extravagant in our language " and when it is a matter of social life, "almost all biased." It seems to amount to stultification, almost.
Education of the Duc d'Angoulême. Libelous Attacks on the Queen. Death of the Empress. Favor shown some of the Swedish Nobles. The Count de Fersen. Necker retires from Office. His Character. The Queen expects to be confined again. Increasing Unpopularity of the King's Brothers. Birth of the Dauphin. Festivities. Deputations from the Different Trades. Songs of the Dames de la Halle.
It so happened that one of the victims, having failed to "come across" substantially enough, discovered very shortly another libelous paragraph, which reflected very seriously upon his young and attractive wife; and as it was pretty generally known at the time that the "General" and ourselves had parted company, the husband forthwith came to us for advice.
But there are incessant lynchings in the remoter parts of Russia, in the backwoods of Serbia, Bulgaria and Herzegovina, in Mexico and Nicaragua, and in such barbarous American states as Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina. The notion that lynching in the South is countenanced by the gentry or that they take an actual hand in it is libelous and idiotic.
"It would be libelous, anyway, if the gang passed around a word that they couldn't prove," chuckled Drayne. "So I guess those that may be doing a heap of thinking will have caution enough to keep their mouths shut, anyway," That afternoon, after luncheon, Phin Drayne took a long tramp over country roads at the back of the big town. It was five o'clock when he returned.
Those who had received the article by the first mail had handed it to those who had not. Many of the girls had already written letters in reply and sent them to be published in New York papers. Would the editors of the Commune do anything about the base, libelous article? Were these stinging falsehoods about college girls to be allowed to be scattered over the country without a single protest?
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