Word: alibied
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Shocked London bobbies halted repeatedly, last fortnight, a hard-faced, middle-aged woman who sped up and down Piccadilly in a tiny, three-wheeled automobile. Why had it no license? Why had she no license? Shrewd, the woman spoke her alibi: "It hasn't any license, and I haven't any license, because my car hasn't any engine!" While astonished motorcycle bobbies paced her, the hard-faced middle-aged woman peddled potently on a bicycle mechanism and speeded her tiny car up to 25 miles per hour. An official of the firm now marketing "The Taxlessmobile...
When the customs officials refused to allow this alibi, on the ground that wives, however undomestic, if not legally separated from their husbands, must share the citizenship of their men, Ganna Walska produced a lawyer who last week said he would appeal to Washington because...
Amid the tension thus created, Edward of Wales was observed to be in irritable mood. Even for this the alibi was perfect. His Royal Highness had submitted to typhoid inoculation on shipboard, had run a temperature for four days, was obviously not up to cricket. Upon landing at Mombasa, Kenya Colony, T. R. H. proceeded to Nairobi, the capital, where they put up for several days at Government House with Governor Sir Edward W. M. Grigg, before plunging into the interior of Africa after big game...
...said, among other things, that he "did not intentionally violate or attempt to evade the spirit or letter of the [player-writer] rule and to the best of my knowledge articles under dispute do not violate the rule." This constitutes either falsehood or an anaemic revival of his 1925 alibi, when he was in a similar difficulty for a similar offense...
...definitely accept your challenge, and will certainly meet you, God willing, face to face. . . . The place where this is done is quite immaterial, as it is vindication before the whole nation that you need and not the opportunity to establish an alibi merely before the Calvary congregation...